You can also use Teams through a browser at (see below).

Please see the Download, Install and Set Up Microsoft Teams knowledge base article.

The desktop is better than the web app in a few other ways.This article is designed to act as an overview of Microsoft Teams, showcasing how to access it along with some of the key features of the application.

But in parallel, I'm glad that they're working to bring this full capability natively to the desktop app. Ironically, this may mean that the fastest way to fix this problem is to update Windows so it can show badges in the Taskbar for web apps. That one missing feature completely defeats Team's usability for a real-time communication tool, and relegates it to something asynchronous like email.

That does work, pretty well in fact, but even if you allow notices from the URL, the web app version doesn't show any alerts, no badge on the icon in the taskbar showing you that there are new messages waiting.

Now, to be fair, there is an easy way to do this: use a web profile for each and install the Teams site as an app in Windows for each profile (as many as needed). None of this is acceptable for those of us who work with multiple tenants.įor us, we need multiple tenants running at the same time so we can receive chats/posts from all of them at the same time. It was only a few months ago that they even put the tenant and option to switch accounts into a new account menu, but you have to sign out first, then sign in.

They did add the ability to switch between a Work and Personal Teams account, but not multiple Work accounts (tenants). I've been one of the regular posters to MS about the problems with the tenant locking.

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