Installing Microsoft Teams
- Ashley Mattingly
- Dan Jakubiak
- Meera S Nair
Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that is available to faculty, staff, and students at UConn with a Microsoft 365 account. These instructions describe three ways that you can install Teams on your devices.
For ITS managed workstations, Teams can be installed from the Company Portal App (Windows) or Self Service (Macs). Non-ITS managed devices should install Teams from Microsoft’s website.
From the Company Portal App (Windows)
Navigate to the Start Menu and search for Company Portal.
Locate Microsoft Teams, click on it, and press Install.
From the Self Service App (MacOS)
Open spotlight search or press cmd+space and search for “Self Service”.
Log in with your NetID and NetID password.
Look for “Microsoft Teams” and click Install.
From Teams Browser App
Navigate to https://teams.microsoft.com/.
Towards the left bottom of the toolbar, click on Get App.
This starts the download of the app. Once downloaded, install the app and sign in with your UConn email address and your NetID password.
From Microsoft’s Website
Select Download for desktop.
Select Download Teams.
An installer will download. Run the downloaded installer and sign in with your UConn email and NetID password.
