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I can't express how much I hate teams, and two years into a remote work revolution, they honestly don't have any excuse. My teams client is CONSTANTLY confused

by atonse 5y ago

I can't express how much I hate teams, and two years into a remote work revolution, they honestly don't have any excuse. My teams client is CONSTANTLY confused about this "work account home account" garbage. Holy crap Batman it's a disaster. Clicking on teams links causes my teams client to freeze up with a blank screen sometimes for minutes. So I've been late to many meetings because the Teams client just doesn't connect. I'm yet to hear a SINGLE instance of someone using teams other than "we already bought it" or "we have some strategic partnership with MS, so we have to use it" – some BS that's shoved down people's throats. The multi-account stuff is something slack and discord got right from day one. And years into it, MS still hasn't figured this out. It's appalling how bad Teams is, years later. Anytime I see a teams link in a calendar event, I groan loudly.

dariusj18 5y ago
Not being able to use multiple accounts is a severe disadvantage that they claimed they were working on.
sideshowb 5y ago
Aaaah yes you just reminded me I have similar issues switching between teams in different organizations. This thread is much needed therapy. Teams is truly awful on so many levels.
- calmoo 5y ago
  The only solace in using Teams is being able to bond with other people who have experienced the same pain.
- cge 5y ago
  There are a few conferences in my field that, for some reason, use Teams, and a number of UK universities seem to have been pushed into using it. It is bad enough that one warned everyone that, if their university used Teams, to please provide a non-university email address, because the university using Teams would likely prevent the university email address from being used to log in to the conference. For the actual talks, of course, most of these conferences use Teams to send out Zoom links. Using Teams for those would be a disaster.
JamesAdir 5y ago
+1 for that. Recently in W10 MS is requiring to login with your personal account only and not a work account to the apps store. Can't get the logic behind that.
Stevvo 5y ago
I don't know how attributable your problems are to Teams; what you're describing sounds more like a general problem of misunderstanding AzureAD. But maybe you're right; it can feel like everyone has to be in the tenant for things to work. Have had many problems with _EXT clients.

by atonse 5y ago

dariusj18 5y ago

Not being able to use multiple accounts is a severe disadvantage that they claimed they were working on.

sideshowb 5y ago

Aaaah yes you just reminded me I have similar issues switching between teams in different organizations. This thread is much needed therapy. Teams is truly awful on so many levels.

calmoo 5y ago
The only solace in using Teams is being able to bond with other people who have experienced the same pain.
cge 5y ago
There are a few conferences in my field that, for some reason, use Teams, and a number of UK universities seem to have been pushed into using it. It is bad enough that one warned everyone that, if their university used Teams, to please provide a non-university email address, because the university using Teams would likely prevent the university email address from being used to log in to the conference. For the actual talks, of course, most of these conferences use Teams to send out Zoom links. Using Teams for those would be a disaster.

JamesAdir 5y ago

+1 for that. Recently in W10 MS is requiring to login with your personal account only and not a work account to the apps store. Can't get the logic behind that.

Stevvo 5y ago

I don't know how attributable your problems are to Teams; what you're describing sounds more like a general problem of misunderstanding AzureAD. But maybe you're right; it can feel like everyone has to be in the tenant for things to work. Have had many problems with _EXT clients.