Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing and collaboration platform and is available as part of Microsoft 365.

Teams is not an official communication channel of the University of Vienna for service requests. If you would like to contact service centres at the University of Vienna, please use the existing support channels.

Students and employees are separated from each other within the Microsoft Teams environment of the University of Vienna – it is not possible to find and interact between the two groups. This also applies to the visibility of attendance status.

Scope of service

Teams is available to members of the University of Vienna as part of Microsoft 365. In addition to functions such as chats, calls, (video) meetings and tasks, Teams also offers a link to the Exchange (for employees only) service as well as access to other Microsoft 365 apps, for example SharePoint, OneDrive, Whiteboard and Stream.

Acquiring Teams

To use Teams at the University of Vienna, you need:

  • a Microsoft account
  • a personal licence

A Microsoft account and a personal licence are created when you acquiring Microsoft 365.

Employees

Employees aquire Microsoft 365 via the self-service portal.

Students

Students order Microsoft 365 free of charge via AcadCloud.

Using Teams

The following options are available:

An active Internet connection is required to use Teams.

Logging in to Teams

To log in to Teams use the following information:

Microsoft account at the University of Vienna

  • User name: u:account-userID@univie.ac.at – Example: doejami1@univie.ac.at
  • Password: u:account password

Data protection

For information on data protection, see the Microsoft 365 data protection website (in German).

Terms of Use

The Terms of Use Microsoft 365 apply.

 User guides

You can find user guides for Teams via the Microsoft 365 user guides.

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