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Run multiple instances of MS Teams application on a machine

In our office, the people need to be logged into the corporate account and a business (client) for communication in client's network but we can run only 1 instance of MS Teams by default. There is a user voice on the same rum multiple instances on a machine.  Follow the below listed steps to setup multiple instances on a single machine Open any text editor, you can use default notepad app of your windows pc Copy the below code to your editor @ECHO OFF SET MSTEAMS_PROFILE=%~n0 ECHO - Using profile "%MSTEAMS_PROFILE%" SET "OLD_USERPROFILE=%USERPROFILE%" SET "USERPROFILE=%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\CustomProfiles\%MSTEAMS_PROFILE%"   ECHO - Launching MS Teams with profile %MSTEAMS_PROFILE% cd "%OLD_USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams" "%OLD_USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Teams\Update.exe" --processStart "Teams.exe" Save the above file on your machine with extension ".bat" or with ".cmd" Onc...

List of the joined teams per user in MS Teams Admin Center

Microsoft has launched a new update on 11 March 2022 that is helpful for Teams Administrators of a Tenant. With this update Teams Administrators will get a list of all Teams for a user is a member of in the Teams admin center. Earlier there was no way from Teams Admin center and forced to use PowerShell Script for this. Get-Team -User vivek.jagga @ sharepointexcellence.com To view the list of Teams for a user is a member of in Teams Admin Center, execute the below steps  Go to Teams Admin Center Click to Users --> Manage Users Select a user for that you wish to retrieve the list of Teams for which the user is member. This will open the User Detail page Now click to the Teams tab. System will show to view all the teams that the user is a part of For more details, go through Microsoft roadmap feature ID 87969 and Message Center  MC332869

Learn : How to clean cache files to handle MS Teams issues

Microsoft is focusing on collaboration and MS Teams is most popular now a days. We can update settings / profile from MS Teams and other Office 365 documents. Sometimes we may faced issue related to cache, it means that we are updating something and its not working on our local machine only. Same situation was with me, user had changed his name and its available correctly for other team member but on his local machine its old one even in all Office 365 clients (MS Word, Excel, etc.). Manually tried to clean up some files but its not working. So drafted a PS script that worked.  Sharing that PS snippet with you all so that you can also save your time. PowerShell script at GitHub  Clean MS Teams Cache $VerbosePreference = "Continue" # Force Close any Teams Process Get-Process -Name "Teams" | Stop-Process -Force # Get Microsoft Teams Paths $TeamsRemovePath = @() $TeamsRemovePath += Join-Path -Path ([Environment]::GetFolderPath('ApplicationData')) -ChildPath (...