Microsoft Teams keeps making improvements but it isn't still close handling multiple windows as you would expect in state-of-the-art tools (even Skype was better). Pop out chat came recently and also Separate Meeting Windows with the New Meeting Experience.
Still, one common pain/ wish is to be able to monitor the meeting chat on another screen/ window while attending the meeting or even presenting in a meeting. Or view the attendees' video while presenting.
As common workaround for this, I use the trick to open Teams in the browser. (Another workaround to open a second client instance is explained in this other post.)
How to open Teams in the browser
You can access Teams in your browser from the url teams.microsoft.com.
In the browser, you can have as many windows as it suits you.
You can even use a Chrome extension like New Window without Toolbar to have a light window by removing the browser clutter like the toolbar.
I personally use a special dedicated profile for working with Teams in the browser.
If you are using Chrome as Default browser, you might also want to create a lean web app for MS Teams.
See detailed post here.
Open a meeting chat
To quickly open a meeting chat I like to go to the Calendar in Teams, select the meeting, right-click on it and select Chat with participants in the context menu.
See detailed post here Teams Meeting: Open Chat in a separate Window
Join a Meeting twice
You can also Join a Meeting from the Teams Application with Audio and Video and Join the meeting a second time from the browser.
If you do so be careful when joining the second time to deactivate the audio.
From the joing screen click Audio off:
You can also mute a Tab in your Browser by right-clicking on the Tab Title-> Mute site:
This allows you to look at the slides and the people video on 2 different windows/ screens side-by-side.
PowerTools Integration
Teamsy
From Teamsy you can quickly open Teams in the Web browser by using the keyword w (like web)
If you want to open the Calendar use w cal
Teams Shortcuts
With Teams Shortcuts, from the Systray icon context menu you can also easily open the Web app:
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