Joining Teams & Channels
Guest invitation process from Teams
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Guest invitation process from Teams
Last updated
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The secretariat has set up a Microsoft Teams/SharePoint collaboration workspace under the United Nations tenant and will invite experts as 'Guests' to the different channels relevant to their chapters.
With guest access, you will have access to teams, documents in channels, resources, chats, and applications. Anyone with a business or consumer email account, such as Outlook, Gmail, or others, can participate as a guest in Teams.
Please provide a Microsoft Office 365 work or school email account to be added as a guest user. Send an email to the secretariat: mea-ipbes-registration@un.org.
After a guest is added to a team, it may take a few hours before they have access.
To join the TEAMS channels, you will receive two email invitations from the secretariat.
The first email will be from the United Nations, inviting you to access our applications. The email will be from uniteidentity_noreply@un.org. The message's subject will read, "An invitation from the United Nations to access our applications." Click on the link in the email to redeem your invitation. Please click on the link to accept the invitation within 24 hours. Guests who have a work or school account in Azure Active Directory can accept the invitation and authenticate directly. Other users are sent a one-time passcode to validate their identity (One-time passcode authentication is required).
After successfully redeeming your invitation, you will be redirected to the UN OICT website (https://xx.un.org). Please disregard this and wait for an email invitation to join a specific team's channel.
Next, the secretariat will invite you to join the IPBES MS Teams. The second email will be a welcome email message from Microsoft TEAMS, which will include some information about the team. The email will be from noreply@emeaemail.teams.microsoft.com and the message's subject will read, "You have been added to a team in Microsoft Teams." Please accept the invitation either via the Teams desktop application or by selecting Open Microsoft Teams in the email message. See scrennshot below.
After accepting the invitation, you can participate in Teams and channels, receive and respond to channel messages, access files in channels, participate in chats, join meetings, collaborate on documents, and more.
The new version of Teams allows you to quickly and easily sign in to and switch between multiple accounts and organizations. Search and chat have been streamlined to offer more seamless collaboration opportunities.
You can now log into multiple work, school, and personal accounts using the new Teams.
Select your profile picture in the top right of the Teams desktop client.
Select Add another account and enter your credentials in the pop-up window.
You can return to your profile at any time to switch between accounts.
Click on your profile picture in the upper right corner.
You will now see a list of the organizations you’ve been invited to.
If you experience any technical issues, kindly notify the respective technical support unit.
Report other technical issues to the secretariat at the following email: mea-ipbes-registration@un.org.
