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Adding a personal account in New Microsoft Teams

Anonymous
2024-01-04T17:25:12+00:00

I have tried add my personal account in new Microsoft Teams and I am getting a message that says it does not support this. It worked just fine in the previous version and I could have both open at the same time.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-07T03:06:44+00:00

    I've tried to download a "personal" version of the "New Teams" only to get the Work&School version over and over again.

    Call me crazy, but shouldn't Teams be just ... Teams? Why make your users miserable with different versions of the same application? Who came up with that brilliant idea and why did the rest follow it?

    Now, about the personal accounts, those are paying customers, so why does Microsoft treat them like garbage?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-19T23:01:10+00:00

    Microsoft is so borked with Teams.

    I can install the "work or school" teams but I cannot install the home teams.

    I have a personal account and a work account. I cannot run them both in teams (work or school)

    and I cannot install personal when my work account is linked to the PC. What a pos.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-24T05:50:43+00:00

    This new Teams system makes no sense and is so infuriating. Why would the old classic teams app support both account types and the new teams app doesn't? I now have two apps on my computer that do the same thing, and when I open one or the other, I have to choose to switch to that version every single time. This needs to be reverted. One app.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-16T06:04:21+00:00

    Microsoft completely failed with those account hell. It supported one email with multiple account types like personal, work, schole. I don't know what the idea behind this. Who designed this system? If my organization creates an email for me it is for work. If i created an email it is for personal usage. Reason for this complication is that acount type chaos.

    And now even Micrososft it self can not deal with those complications and disabled new teams to use personal accounts. I dont know any other software which is disabled usage of their customers' accounts. I think you are the one MS. Congratulations!

    So i can not use new teams desktop and has to use web version. In the past because of your chaos in account types i have had created (by mistake) a personal account and bound some organizations with that personal account as guest. Now it is not possible to tell them allow my work account. And i forced to use Web version. If i could, i give up using the Teams. But organizations that i play part uses it.

    My suggestion is to not use Teams as a collaboration tool, If you are starting a new project.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-23T10:27:54+00:00

    Emily, there is no "Teams for Home" that one can download. The old Teams does support personal and family accounts. What's not great is if you send someone a Teams invite from a personal account and they have new Teams. That cannot join that meeting from new Teams, they have to use the web. Microsoft really need to rethink this as it makes personal and family Teams essentially useless.

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