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Use Orbit in Microsoft Teams

Orbit ships as Orbit Wiki, a personal tab for Microsoft Teams, so you can read and edit your wiki without leaving Teams.

Install Orbit Wiki

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  1. In Teams, open Apps.
  2. Search for Orbit Wiki (publisher: Sope Web Technologies).
  3. Select Add.

The app adds one personal tab named Home with the full Orbit experience — the same workspaces and notes you see in the browser. Your Teams admin can also install or pin the app for the whole organization; see Deploy Orbit in Microsoft 365.

Sign in automatically

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Orbit Wiki signs you in silently with your Teams account (Teams SSO) — normally you never see a sign-in screen. If Teams cannot provide a sign-in token silently, Orbit shows Teams sign-in is required with a Sign in with Teams button; select it to finish sign-in in a Microsoft window.

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When you share a note, the share dialog offers a Teams link that opens the note inside the Orbit Wiki tab. Anyone in a chat or channel who selects that link lands directly on the note in their own Orbit tab, with their own permissions applied. See Share notes.

Use Orbit on Teams mobile

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Orbit Wiki works in the Teams mobile app. On phones it opens Orbit’s phone-optimized screens with bottom navigation instead of the desktop layout.

Export from inside Teams

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Teams tabs cannot download files in place, so exports (PDF, Word, Markdown) open in your system browser instead. When the export is ready, Orbit opens the download outside Teams. If Teams blocks opening the browser, Orbit shows a Copy download link button — paste the link into any browser tab to download.

Sign out inside Teams

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Open Settings in Orbit and select Sign out. Orbit stays signed out even though Teams itself keeps you signed in — Orbit cannot end your Microsoft session from inside a Teams tab. To use Orbit again, select Sign in with Teams.

Know what the Teams app does not include

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Orbit Wiki is a personal tab only. It does not include:

  • A bot or message extension.
  • A tab you can add to a channel or group chat.
  • An automatic meeting-notes flow.

To bring a note into a conversation, paste its Teams link into the chat.

Up next: evaluating Orbit for your organization? Start with Data residency.