Microsoft Teams Insider program participants can now follow a work-related meeting from their private account in the Teams app. Microsoft announced this recently.
Users with a private account in Teams have always been able to participate in work meetings. But in this case, the name of the user would not appear. The person participated under the name ‘guest’. Furthermore, this option was only there for the web-based version of Teams and not for the application. This limited the final user experience.
Login with a private account
The tech giant recently introduced a new feature within its Teams Insider program. With this, participants with a private account still get all the benefits of Teams if they use their private account.
The change was made in the Windows 11 Teams application. Users from the Teams Insider program must, therefore, run on Microsoft’s latest OS and log in through the application. So, the ability to use a private account to log into a work meeting in the Teams application is also added. With this feature, they simply participate under their name and not as a ‘guest’.
Phased rollout
The new functionality is being rolled out in phases. Participants in the Teams Insider program can then use their personal account to access a work-related online meeting via a link they can click in a chat or community in the free version of the Microsoft Teams app.
Whether this functionality will also become generally available for Microsoft Teams is not known. Users can, however, sign up for the Teams Insider program to take advantage of the feature. The meeting platform did reveal quite a few upcoming features for 2024. An overview can be found here.
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