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Installing Teams

Step-by-Step guides and videos showing you how to easily download and install Teams for your home and mobile devices.

Download and install Teams on your devices

Microsoft Teams is available to download or use online through the Office 365 portal at login.gre.ac.uk

Managed Desktop

How to install / reinstall Teams on your Managed Desktop  / Podium PC

Step-by-Step
  • To first check to see if Teams is already installed, Click on the Windows button and type the word Teams
  • If Teams is already installed, it will appear at the top of the applications menu
  • To uninstall, reinstall or install Teams, click on the Windows button and select the Software Center
  • Within Software Center, select installation status and search for Teams in the search box
  • If Teams appears as installed in software centre, yet you cannot see it in the Windows Start menu you should uninstall it via Software Center before reinstalling
  • To install or uninstall Teams, select applications and use the search
  • Or simply select Teams to install or uninstall the software as desired
  • If there is more than one version of Teams available to install, you should select the latest version

Windows

How to install Microsoft Teams on a Windows device

Step-by-Step
  • Go to login.gre.ac.uk and enter your university username followed by @gre.ac.uk and password

Staff: If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter additional Multi-Factor Authentication credentials 

Students: You should log straight into the Microsoft Office 365 portal

  • Click on the Microsoft Teams icon 
  • Teams will launch in your browser – but you will need a local installation to create meetings 
  • Click on the profile icon at the top right (your initials or profile picture)
  • From the dropdown menu, select Download the Desktop app 
  • The installation software will now download
  • From your browser, or File explorer run the installation file 
  • Once completed, you may need to reboot your computer

MacOS

How to install Microsoft Teams on a MacOS device

Step-by-Step
  • Go to login.gre.ac.uk and enter your university username followed by @gre.ac.uk and password

Staff: If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter additional Multi-Factor Authentication credentials 

Students: You should log straight into the Microsoft Office 365 portal

  • Click on the Microsoft Teams icon 
  • Teams will launch in your browser – but you will need a local installation to create meetings 
  • Click on the profile icon at the top right (your initials or profile picture)
  • From the dropdown menu, select Download the Desktop app 
  • The installation software will now download
  • From your browser, or Finder run the installation file 
  • You may be prompted to enter an administrator username and password

Android

How to install Microsoft Teams on an Android device

Step-by-Step
  • Access  the Google Play store 
  • Search for "Microsoft Teams"
  • Download the app called Microsoft Teams and wait for it to install
  • Open the Teams app on your phone
  • If prompted log-in using your University username@gre.ac.uk and password

Staff: If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter additional Multi-Factor Authentication credentials 

iOS

How to install Microsoft Teams on an iOS device

Step-by-Step
  • Access the Apple App store
  • Search for "Microsoft Teams"
  • Download the app called Microsoft Teams and wait for it to install
  • Open the Teams app on your phone
  • If prompted log-in using your University username@gre.ac.uk and password

Staff: If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter additional Multi-Factor Authentication credentials

Accessing Teams via a Browser

Teams can also be accessed directly from a browser on your computer, but does not provide the same level of functionality at present

  • Go to login.gre.ac.uk and enter your university username followed by @gre.ac.uk and password

Staff: If you are off campus, you will be prompted to enter additional Multi-Factor Authentication credentials 

Students: You should log straight into the Microsoft Office 365 portal

  • Click on the Microsoft Teams icon 
  • Teams will launch in your browser