From 13 million daily active users in July 2019 to 145 million daily users in April 2021, Microsoft Teams continues to grow its user base. One of the key contributors to the growth of Microsoft Teams is its deep integration with other Office 365 applications. However, despite the increasing usage, the application is not without its shortcomings.
You cannot launch multiple instances of Microsoft Teams with different accounts. If you work with different organizations or share PCs with family, this restriction can be troublesome. To use different Microsoft Teams accounts on your PC, here’s what you can do.
Method 1: Launch personal and professional Microsoft Teams accounts simultaneously
If you want to sign in to your personal and professional (organizational) accounts on Microsoft Teams, you can do so. At the end of 2020, Microsoft introduced a new feature on Teams that allows users to sign in to personal accounts.
However, if you want to run multiple professional accounts or multiple personal accounts simultaneously, you will have to use Method 2 explained later in the article. Here’s how to switch between your personal and professional accounts on Teams:
Note: Microsoft Teams allows only one personal account and one professional account to be signed in at the same time.
Step 1: Launch the Microsoft Teams app on your PC.
Step 2: Sign in to your pro account on the app.
Step 3: Once the chat interface is launched, select your profile picture.
Step 4: From the options, select Add Personal Account.
Step 5: On the new dialog, enter your personal account details (email and password) and log in.
Step 6: Teams will launch your personal account as another app on your desktop, and you can pin it to your taskbar.
Note: The professional Teams app has a different icon than the personal Teams app so you can tell the difference.
Method 2: Launch different Microsoft Teams accounts
To have different Microsoft Teams Accounts running simultaneously on your PC, professional or personal, you can sign in to a different account in your browser or install the Microsoft Teams progressive web app (PWA) as explained in the detailed steps below:
Sign in to Microsoft Teams on a browser
The first way to run multiple Microsoft Teams accounts on your Windows 10 PC is to use your browser. That means you sign in to one account on the desktop app and sign in to another using a browser. Here’s how to do so:
Step 1: Launch the Microsoft Teams app on your PC.
Step 2: Sign in to the first Microsoft Teams account on the application.
Step 3: Launch your web browser and enter the web address for Microsoft Teams.
Step 4: Sign in to your alternate account on Microsoft Teams for the web browser.
Now you can run multiple meetings at the same time using different accounts. You can also chat on one account and hold a meeting on the other.
Install Microsoft Teams PWA on Windows 10
Another option is to install Microsoft Teams as a PWA. This means you are installing Teams as a web app on Windows 10. To do this, you must have a chromium-based web browser.
Note: Examples of chromium-based web browsers are: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera.
Here’s how to install Microsoft Teams PWA on your Windows 10 PC:
Step 1: Launch the Microsoft Teams app on your PC.
Step 2: Sign in to the first Microsoft Teams account on the application.
Step 3: Launch your web browser (Edge is being used for demonstration purposes) and enter the web address for Microsoft Teams.
Step 4: Sign in to your alternate account on Microsoft Teams for the web browser.
Step 5: Click on the Settings menu of the browser.
Step 6: Select Applications.
Step 7: Select Install this Site as an App.
Step 8: Provide a name that allows you to easily identify the app then click Install.
You have now installed the Microsoft Teams PWA on your Windows 10 computer. Double-click the application icon to launch it. You can sign in with an account other than the one you have on the desktop browser and app. Meanwhile, you can also pin the web app to your taskbar for easy access.
Fix Microsoft Teams login error
With the methods explained above, you can easily sign in to multiple Teams accounts using one PC. However, if you’re having trouble signing in, read this article on how to fix Teams sign-in errors.
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