Were you ever added as a guest to a team of a customer, supplier or former employer? Then that organization keeps showing up in Teams, with notifications and chats you no longer need. You can remove yourself as a guest from that organization, usually without any help from their admin. Below you'll see how, what happens to your account afterwards and what to do when it doesn't work.
Hide or really leave?
You have two options, and the difference matters:
- Turn off or hide: the organization disappears from your list or your profile card, but you're still a guest. Handy if you still work with that customer now and then.
- Leave: your guest account in that organization is deleted. You lose access to their teams, chats and files.
Juggling several accounts? Also read use multiple accounts at once in Microsoft Teams.
From Teams
- In Teams, select your profile picture and choose Manage accounts and orgs, or go via ... to Settings > Accounts and orgs. The exact name can differ slightly by version.
- Under Other orgs you see the organizations where you're a guest.
- Switch an organization off with its toggle if you only want to hide it, or select Leave if that option is shown and confirm.
No leave button, or does Teams send you to the browser? Use the My Account method below. It always works, even outside Teams.
Via My Account
- Go to myaccount.microsoft.com and sign in with your own work or school account.
- Open Organizations in the left menu, or select Manage organizations on the start page.
- Under Other organizations you collaborate with, select Leave next to the organization.
- Confirm with Leave.
With a personal account or one-time passcode
Were you invited on a Gmail address or a personal Microsoft account, or do you sign in with a one-time passcode by email? Then open My Account with that organization's name or ID in the URL, for example myaccount.microsoft.com?tenantId=contoso.onmicrosoft.com. A private browser window helps if you keep landing in another account.
What happens next?
- You immediately lose access to that organization's teams, chats, meetings and files.
- Your guest account is soft-deleted. The organization can restore it for 30 days, including groups and permissions. After that, permanent deletion starts.
- It can take a while before the organization disappears from Teams. Sign out and back in, or clear the Teams cache.
- Want access again later? An owner or admin has to invite you again, as described in how to add external guests in Microsoft Teams.
Messages you posted in their chats and channels usually stay there. Only joined via a shared channel? That uses B2B direct connect rather than a guest account; see shared channels in Microsoft Teams.
Doesn't it work?
- A message saying you need permission: the organization doesn't allow guests to remove themselves. Contact their admin or the privacy contact shown on the page.
- No Leave button: that's your own home organization, such as your employer. Only an admin can remove your account there.
- Your account is disabled: their admin has to remove you.
- That organization created your account itself: then you're not a guest but a regular user. Ask their admin to delete the account.
For admins
In the Microsoft Entra admin center, under Entra ID > External Identities > External collaboration settings, the External user leave settings option decides whether guests can remove themselves. It's only available once you've added privacy information for your tenant. Removed guests show up under Deleted users. For an overview of the guest controls, see check and manage guest access in Microsoft Teams.
FAQ
Does the organization see that I left?
Yes, your guest account appears under their deleted users and you drop out of their teams and groups.
Do I lose files I shared with them?
Files in your own OneDrive stay yours. Files you posted in their teams stay with that organization.
Nederlandstalige versie: Jezelf als gast verwijderen uit een andere Teams-organisatie