Microsoft is launching its unified Teams app, allowing easy switching of work and personal accounts.

The new app, currently available in preview, will become widely available for commercial users in April. It will allow Teams users to switch between multiple tenants and personal or work account types, with the account switch toggle accessible via the profile section.

Microsoft’s Windows Insider Blog wrote:

In this preview, Microsoft Teams will be available as a single application, enabling users to seamlessly switch between multiple cloud environments, tenants, and account types across personal and work.”

To add or access more accounts on Teams, a user must click on their profile picture at the top right corner of the Teams interface after signing in.

In upcoming updates, users will have the flexibility to join any Teams meeting smoothly. When joining, they will be given the option to select the preferred account they wish to use. Additionally, users will be able to join meetings without signing in.

Notifications have been upgraded and now display the connected Teams account for improved clarity. Furthermore, personal notifications offer enhanced details within the notification banner, encouraging more transparent and more straightforward actions. Users can also launch personal and work accounts simultaneously via separate icons on the taskbar.

Enterprise Admins can expect the addition of Microsoft account sign-in functionality as a feature in the regular monthly updates. This update will seamlessly integrate with new Teams installations, removing the need for extra app installations.

The functionality is set to enter preview in April, with full availability scheduled for May. Users’ ability to sign in with Microsoft accounts will adhere to all sign-in restriction policies, preserving consistency with previous versions of Teams.

“We received consistent feedback from personal and work users: you prefer a single Teams app that allows you to access and switch between personal and work accounts easily,” Microsoft’s blog wrote. “This update lets you use one app for all kinds of Teams accounts.”

March in Teams News

Last week, Microsoft Teams celebrated its seventh birthday — a milestone for the video conferencing platform that’s revolutionised how people work since its general release on 14 March 2017.

More practically, however, Microsoft also announced that its Planner in Teams project management solution had become available in Public Preview last week.

Previously announced at Microsoft Ignite in November, the new Planner product is a product of Microsoft combining the simplicity of its To Do service, the collaborative capabilities of the previous Planner iteration, the holistic features of Project for the web, and the AI-powered turbocharger that is Microsoft Copilot into one unified functionality available in Microsoft Teams.

Additionally, the European Commission’s use of Microsoft 365 software came under scrutiny by the EU’s privacy watchdog last week.

As first reported by Reuters, the Commission’s leveraging of Microsoft allegedly breaches privacy rules, while the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) watchdog continued by saying that the bloc’s executive failed to implement adequate safeguards for personal data transferred to non-EU or non-European Economic Area (EEA) nations.

The EDPS mandated that the Commission must ensure compliance with privacy regulations and cease data transfers to the American business and its subsidiaries in third countries lacking established privacy agreements with the EU. Both directives were issued with a deadline of December 9.



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