You can now join work or school Teams meetings with your personal Microsoft account

Microsoft introduced the ability to allow users to join Teams meetings with their own personal Microsoft accounts, according to the latest blog post made by the Redmond-based tech giant.

When using your personal Teams account to join a meeting that originated from a Work or School Teams account, you previously had to join as a guest, often causing your meeting to open in a web browser with limited functionality. Now you can join as your signed-in personal Microsoft account from within the Teams app on Windows 11, providing a better meeting experience for all parties.

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You will be able to join a work or school Teams meeting from the Teams platform, by tapping a Teams for work or school meeting link in a chat or community within Teams free. You will then join the meeting with your credentials, as you can see in the image below.

For now, the feature is only available in Teams Insider, so if you’re not enlisted in the Teams Insider Program, you can’t use this functionality just yet. However, based on insiders react to it, the feature will most probably be released to the stable version of Teams in the next weeks.

Microsoft has prepared a few intriguing and useful features for Teams that are slated for April, so this feature might also be coming to the general public, by then. We’re talking about shorter meeting URLs, and joining a Teams meeting by scanning a QR code.

These features will effectively make it easier for Teams users to join meetings without any constraints, or back-and-forth between personal and professional Teams accounts.

Despite the quick access, this feature might not be used by all users, as some prefer to have a clear line between professional and personal accounts, and understandably so.

What do you think about these new features? Do you think it is right to connect to professional meetings using your personal Teams account?