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Multiple Accounts in the Teams Desktop App
The iOS app for Teams allows me to be logged onto multiple accounts simultaneously, but not the desktop App.
Do we know when this will be coming?
Thanks,
Craig
Hi,
The latest public information is that Microsoft is testing this internally and with some customers. It is listed as "working on it" in the uservoice request. A comment also says that they are planning to release it "this fall", but that I doubt.
I came up with a clunky but acceptable solution for now; on my Mac I have simply created different computer user accounts for my different organizations, so that everything I need for one org is in one place. They are all associated with my specific apple ID, so I still have access to cloud things between different user accounts.
Not the best solution, as I have to switch users on my computer, but better than signing out of teams and signing back in and having to verify and blah blah blah every time; I can simply switch users on my Mac and use my fingerprint.
- whilst I want Microsoft to sort this out I like this idea for a workaround, I can user switch on my macbook quicker then logging in and out and MFA into Teams.
Does it cause any problems with icloud? I have 4 organisations I work for that use Teams now - and likely to growCome on, Microsoft - you're forcing users not to use your product!
ProfessorFrost Yeah I've created the same workaround on my PC. I just login to my different profile for each business account.
But still clunky and time consuming when the Android app they have allows me to have multiple accounts on it so I can get all the notifications there. Then have to sign-in to the desktop one to respond/work on the request.
Super inefficient compared to being able to do all my work from one profile. This feature was rolling out in like Feb 2020 initially. And now all we've received is a personal and business account which is literally as useless as one account only. We want this for business Microsoft, the world of the contractor is WELL underway.
