Join Teams Group as a Guest

Step 1 - The respective organizer/owner will add you to the Teams Group and afterwards you will receive an email saying that you have been added as a guest.

Take note of the name of the team once you open the email.

Step 2 - Click on Open Microsoft Teams and sign in (if you have an account with same email address you received invite).

In this case, the email address that was used does not have an account yet, so we were prompted to create an account.

Step 3 - Click on Next and carefully follow the account creation steps accordingly.

Step 4 - Type in a new password that you would like to use for your new account. After you click Next, you will receive an email that contains a verification code.

Step 5 - Type in the verification code from the email that you received and click on Next.

Step 6 - Once you click Next, you will be given a simple puzzle that you would need to complete in order to proceed further in the account creation process.

Step 7 - Open Teams via desktop application or web. If you do not have Teams downloaded on your device yet,

-Click on Download Teams Desktop app OR

-Click on Use the web app instead.

In this case, we are going to click on Launch it now as Teams is already installed on our device.

Step 8 - Sign in if you were not logged in automatically after launching Teams.

Step 9 - Once you are logged into Teams then, navigate to Teams sidebar to find the group you were added. Check the name of the team and make sure that you have been added to the same team that was stated in the email.

Step 10- Click on the Files tab to access the files that were shared to the group.