Using MS Teams for Company and for Private use


cereberus

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When you clean install Windows 11, you get used to get an icon for the MS Chat app and the full MS Teams for company use.

I have registered for the free MS Teams service using my MS account. I can use full Teams for company use (using compamy email address).

I was a bit confused as I could not find the chat app on my current Host OS, and I could not see how to download it.

I logged in to Teams for Company use ok, then signed in. I tried to sign in using my MS account and it kept giving an unhelpful error "we cannot open Teams app".

I than made a good old Reflect Backup and reinstalled MS Teams. I then logged in to Company Teams again, but this time rather than signing out, I just selected link to use Teams for personal use (see below), and I could login to my personal Teams account.

In fact I could have both open at the same time (dangerous LOL).

So it seems, the MS Teams app is now dual purpose and not two separate apps (probably never was but looked like it).

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From 12th April, the free business deals are ending, and you have to use the more limited Free Teams app.

It seems the free Teams will be limited to 1 hour, but it seems if you have a licence for MS Office 365 Personal or Family (which I do), the limit is 30 hours.



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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
    Computer type
    Laptop
    Manufacturer/Model
    ASUS Zenbook 14
    CPU
    I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
    Motherboard
    Yep, Laptop has one.
    Memory
    16 GB soldered
    Graphics Card(s)
    Integrated Intel Iris XE
    Sound Card
    Realtek built in
    Monitor(s) Displays
    laptop OLED screen
    Screen Resolution
    2880x1800 touchscreen
    Hard Drives
    1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
    PSU
    Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
    Case
    Yep, got one
    Cooling
    Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
    Keyboard
    Built in UK keybd
    Mouse
    Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
    Internet Speed
    900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
    Browser
    Edge
    Antivirus
    Defender
    Other Info
    TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)

    Macrium Reflect Home V8
    Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
    Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)

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