Microsoft Teams: How Can I Navigate Between Two Organizations?

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We’ve been talking recently about how you can use Microsoft Teams with your courses. Today, we’re going to zoom out and talk about something that will not likely affect everyone — how to use Microsoft Teams with multiple organizations (companies/groups).

Overall, this is not a complex thing to do. Once you’re in a particular organization’s Teams, you can do all your tasks as normal. However, swapping between organizations can be a bit wonky in certain areas.

The good news? It’s easy to swap between organizations on a mobile app! So, if you primarily use Teams on your phone or tablet and need to access multiple organizations, you can easily jump between the groups.

The unfortunate news is that it’s a little more complicated if you’re using Teams on a computer. The Teams desktop app does not allow you to swap between organizations, so you’d just need to do a little work-around. This method works if you’re using the desktop app or if you have Teams open in your browser. You can’t log into Teams with two different organizations from the same browser window, so you’ll need to open up a second browser or an incognito or private window in the same browser. If you want to use a keyboard shortcut to open that kind of window, you’ll use command + shift + n on Mac or control + shift + n on Windows.

Once you’re in that incognito/private window, open Teams and sign in to your other organization.

If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to leave us a comment below or email us at ctl@cedarville.edu.