Microsoft Teams – Sign up and Join Teams Account

This tutorial guides you to create an account with Teams, invite others to your Teams, and join others on their Teams.

How to Sign up with Teams

In order to use Teams, you first need to create an account using a Gmail address or an email that’s already registered as a Microsoft account.

1. Visit: products.office.com/microsoft-teams
2. Select Sign up  for free
3. Enter the email address you want to use for Teams
4. Click the Next button to continue
5. Choose one of the three account types that fits your needs: school, friends and family, or work
6. Click the Next button to continue. If this is a new email address that has never been associated with any Microsoft account, you will be prompted to create a Microsoft account. Otherwise, go to Step 11
7. Click Create account
8. Then, enter a password of your choice, and click Next
9. Enter the region and your date of birth as required, and click Next
10. Microsoft will send you a verification code to the email address. Retrieve that code and enter it on the next screen and click Next.
11. You may be required to go through an extra step of verification to prove that you are not a robot prior to Microsoft proceeding with the account creation.
12. You will then be required to provide your name and region as the last set of information. Click Set up Teams to proceed. It takes up to a minute or so to create your Teams account with the following progress screen. Make sure you don’t close the current browser page until an update has been displayed.
13. When your Team account is successfully created, the browser displays a welcome screen as seen below. Choose to download the Teams Windows app or use the Teams web app instead

Congratulations, you just successfully signed up with Microsoft Teams!

How to Invite People to Teams

Once you have created a Teams account and logged in, invite others to join you and start collaborate with each other:

1. At the lower-bottom part of the Teams Window, click Invite people
2. Choose one of the three ways of inviting people
   • Share an invite link: click this entry to copy the URL of invitation, which can be pasted in an email or text message
   • Invite your contacts: Teams allows you to pick people from existing contact list from your Microsoft or Gmail account and send them an invitation link
   • Invite by email: you get to manually enter the email address and name of those whom you’d like to invite

How to Join Teams

You can join teams in two ways depending on how the invitation was sent: by email or via an URL link.

Join by email

1. Review the source of the invitation to ensure it is legit
2. Click the Join Teams button
3. Click Accept at the prompt to give permission of joining the team

Join by an URL Link

If you receive an invitation in the format of a web link:

1. Click the link or copy-n-paste it to a web browser
2. Fill in your name and email address and click Join team