Once a user has received the email to join a team in MS Teams, if it is a gmail, yahoo or another NON-Microsoft account, they will be required to create an account prior to being able to log in. If you have a Microsoft account such as outlook.com, hotmail or another institution's account, you will not need to follow the steps below:
If at any point in this process you receive an error message to contact your administrator, please wait up to 2 hours before retrying as it can take some time for all systems to synchronize.
Step 1:
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Step 2:
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Step 3:
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Step 4:
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Step 5:
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