The Growing Challenge For IT Teams: Managing Multiple Microsoft Teams Tenants
Managing multiple Microsoft Teams tenants? You’re not alone. IT admins are battling chaos daily with multi-tenant environments. Here’s how to simplify management in minutes.
Microsoft Teams has become the heart of modern collaboration. But as businesses evolve, many find themselves managing more than one tenant.
Whether it's due to M&A activity, regional divisions, subsidiaries, or external projects, the result is the same:
IT admins are left juggling multiple environments, each with its own policies, users, and admin center.
Microsoft’s tools offer robust management capabilities within a single tenant. But scaling that management across multiple tenants? That’s where complexity sets in.
Common pain points for IT admins managing multiple Teams tenants:
No central admin dashboard for managing multiple tenants
Duplicated effort in policy creation, lifecycle rules, and Teams configuration
Inconsistent governance that leads to compliance risks
Manual onboarding of users and guests into each tenant
Tenant switching fatigue with increased error rates and overhead
Managing each tenant in isolation creates an administrative time sink, making it difficult to enforce consistent standards across the organization.
Where It Matters Most
Newly acquired companies requiring rapid policy alignment
Global/regional IT teams needing centralized oversight with localized autonomy
Project-based tenants spun up for short-term collaboration
Franchise or subsidiary models that require tailored, but unified governance
This isn’t due to a shortcoming in Microsoft’s core tools. They simply weren’t intended for multi-tenant administration at scale. That’s where we come in.
Enter Orto: A Purpose-Built Tool for Multi-Tenant Teams Management
Orto by Callroute is designed to simplify and unify Microsoft Teams administration across multiple tenants, with automation, visibility, and control from one place.
Key features of Multi-Tenant Management by Callroute
Sync Policies Across Tenants - Apply governance and configuration settings universally—no need to rebuild manually
Automate User & Group Provisioning - Use templates to provision users across multiple tenants in minutes, not hours
Centralize Visibility & Reporting - View activity, policy status, and usage metrics across all tenants from one dashboard
Unify Security & Guest Access - Maintain compliance by enforcing sharing and lifecycle rules consistently
Accelerate M&A and Onboarding - Bring newly acquired tenants into alignment instantly—reduce onboarding time from weeks to days
The Results for IT Teams
Save 60–80% of time spent on tenant administration
Reduce risk with consistent, automated governance
Improve user experience with faster access and fewer inconsistencies
Microsoft Teams is powerful. Orto makes it manageable at scale. Designed for IT teams who are managing more than one tenant, and want to do it smarter, faster, and more securely.
Ready to take control of your Teams environment? Book a demo to see how it works.
