Microsoft Teams User Tip #24: Steps to Setup a Free Microsoft Teams Account & How It Works

Below is the process to setup a free Microsoft Teams account starting with a Gmail account.

A few things before we start that you are probably wondering:

• Setting up a user from http://office.com/teamsfree will essentially setup a new Microsoft Teams org and the user as admin
• There is new UI in Microsoft Teams for this user to add new users to the org
• Yes, you can use gmail accounts

Go to http://office.com/teamsfree. Click sign up for free account.

Now type in email address & “Set up account”

Create Account

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Click “Set up account”

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Now the account is setup.

Next we will tell Microsoft about this user.

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Run Microsoft Teams for 1st Time and select org.

(for me it seemed to list Teams tenants that had invited this email address.)

(a popup to re-enter my username [email address])

Now you can invite more people to join your org

How to manage your Teams org:

Conclusion

I was impressed by the smoothness of setting up a new Microsoft Teams organization with an non Microsoft email address. The built in administration is very simple.