Add Microsoft Teams to Outlook What to do if we can't integrate it into Outlook
Microsoft has a series of applications that are considerably useful for work environments, precisely Teams and Outlook are two of these tools that become essential in any case. For this reason, we want to teach you how to add Microsoft Teams to Outlook, both applications can be integrated and work magnificently, which will save us a lot of time and make us very productive..
Add Microsoft Teams to Outlook
It's actually quite easy to add Microsoft Teams to Outlook. The first thing will be to install the Teams desktop application; Outlook should already be installed on our computer. In order to install the application, we will have to follow these steps:
- The first thing will be to make sure that Microsoft Outlook is up to date. For this we can open the application and go to File> Office account.
- We will click on the Update Options drop-down menu and click on Update Now. If there is an update available, we will have to wait for the process to finish; possibly we will have to close Outlook when finished to restart it.
- Once the update is finished, we will have to download the Teams desktop app, we can do this from the Microsoft website .
- Installing Teams is a simple process, the application itself will guide us step by step.
- When we get to the section to select an account, we will have to choose the same account that we use in Outlook. Otherwise, we would have to switch accounts and repeat the process.
- After completing the installation of Teams, we will open Outlook again and choose the Calendar view, we will see Microsoft Teams in the ribbon of tools.
- Now that we have Teams available, we will click on the icon and we can start our first meeting.
What to do if we can't integrate it into Outlook
If we have already completed the process to add Microsoft Teams to Outlook and it still does not work, we should try the following:
- It is very important to verify that we are using the same Microsoft account for both applications, both for Outlook and Teams. Both accounts must be the same.
- In case it does not work, we will have to log out of both applications, clear the cache, restart the PC and log in again, this should solve the problem.
From now on, it will be possible to schedule meetings and use all the features of Microsoft Teams by taking full advantage of this powerful tool.