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title: "Installing Microsoft Teams"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/10749247603/Installing%20Microsoft%20Teams"
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Microsoft Teams is a collaboration app that is available to faculty, staff, and students at UConn with a Microsoft 365 account. These instructions describe three ways that you can install Teams on your devices.

## From the Company Portal app (Windows)

1. <span style="color: #172b4d">Open the Start Menu and search for </span><span style="color: #172b4d">**Company Portal**</span><span style="color: #172b4d">.</span>
2. Locate Microsoft Teams, click on it, and press **Install**.

## From the Self Service+ app (macOS)

1. Open **Self Service+** from your Applications folder.
2. Open the Catalog.
3. Look for Microsoft Teams and click **Install**.

## From the Teams browser app

1. Navigate to [https://teams.microsoft.com/](https://teams.microsoft.com/). Sign in with your UConn email.
2. Click on the drop-down menu in the top right of the window and select the download for the desktop app.
3. This starts the download of the app. Once downloaded, install the app and sign in with your UConn email.

## From the Microsoft website

1. Go to [teams.microsoft.com/downloads](https://teams.microsoft.com/downloads).
2. Select **Download Teams for Windows/Mac**.
3. An installer will download. Run the downloaded installer and sign in with your UConn email.

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