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Teams is also horrible if you are in multiple organizations, as it simply fails to consider that you might want to easily switch between two different Teams mee

Teams is also horrible if you are in multiple organizations, as it simply fails to consider that you might want to easily switch between two different Teams meetings with different authentication, like it's trivial to do with e.g. Slack.

drcongo 5y ago
Ha, you posted this while I typing the exact same complaint.
g_p 5y ago
If you have access to multiple tenants as an external user via the one 365 account, there are some great edge cases. - I need to use the main menu to enter as a named external user in one tenant, to join and bypass the waiting gate to enter the call. Despite my main account being the same email, and indeed SSO! - While in that call, you receive notifications from chat messages in your main tenant chat inbox. - You can't use chat in your main tenant, as you're currently logged into a call as an external in another tenant (still using your main account), so you can see notifications for your messages, but can't reply to them on that device (!) This is before you consider the use-case of having multiple actual 365 accounts (which Microsoft seems to amazingly have failed to deliver on, despite the fact supporting it would likely increase their bottom line, by making it easier to add contractors into a tenant more easily). Strangely, this is supported far better on mobile, but not at all on PC (!) It seems they've built it on such a complex architecture of accounts, external users, guests, tenants etc, that they need to unwind this complexity to make it work - which tenants' policies should apply when on a call as an external user, but chatting in another tenant simultaneously?
nunez 5y ago
OMG yes. You’ll get a notification from a Teams instance in one tenant, but you need to switch accounts entirely in order to take action on it, which is REALLY slow for stupid reasons. Also, you can’t run multiple instances of Teams signed into multiple tenants to work around this, and video conferencing is broken in all sorts of ways if you use Teams from the browser
SecurityLagoon 5y ago
It's garbage normally switching tenancies; but, what really kills it is the fact you can't even access your other tenancies when you are in a meeting.

drcongo 5y ago

Ha, you posted this while I typing the exact same complaint.

g_p 5y ago

If you have access to multiple tenants as an external user via the one 365 account, there are some great edge cases. - I need to use the main menu to enter as a named external user in one tenant, to join and bypass the waiting gate to enter the call. Despite my main account being the same email, and indeed SSO! - While in that call, you receive notifications from chat messages in your main tenant chat inbox. - You can't use chat in your main tenant, as you're currently logged into a call as an external in another tenant (still using your main account), so you can see notifications for your messages, but can't reply to them on that device (!) This is before you consider the use-case of having multiple actual 365 accounts (which Microsoft seems to amazingly have failed to deliver on, despite the fact supporting it would likely increase their bottom line, by making it easier to add contractors into a tenant more easily). Strangely, this is supported far better on mobile, but not at all on PC (!) It seems they've built it on such a complex architecture of accounts, external users, guests, tenants etc, that they need to unwind this complexity to make it work - which tenants' policies should apply when on a call as an external user, but chatting in another tenant simultaneously?

nunez 5y ago

OMG yes. You’ll get a notification from a Teams instance in one tenant, but you need to switch accounts entirely in order to take action on it, which is REALLY slow for stupid reasons. Also, you can’t run multiple instances of Teams signed into multiple tenants to work around this, and video conferencing is broken in all sorts of ways if you use Teams from the browser

SecurityLagoon 5y ago

It's garbage normally switching tenancies; but, what really kills it is the fact you can't even access your other tenancies when you are in a meeting.