Managing Microsoft Teams

Description

Microsoft Teams is a core Microsoft 365 application. Microsoft Teams is a chat-centered workspace in
Office 365 that supports team members accomplish more together. Microsoft Teams serves as a hub for
teamwork, providing ready access to chat conversations, content, and tools from across Office 365 into a single workspace. SharePoint and OneNote are built-in, and team members can work on Office documents right within the app.

Basic Usage:

Aside from chats, Microsoft Teams also supports video calls and meetings to enable teams to meet live,
whether on-demand or scheduled. In addition, team members can easily collaborate with multiple teams and search across people, chats, and files anytime. Microsoft Teams works across Windows, Mac, Web, Android, and iOS platforms.

Signing into Teams admin portal

1. Open your browser and type in “admin.teams.microsoft.com” in the address bar.
2. Sign in and enter your credentials for verification. After that, this page will be displayed as shown
in the image below

Figure 1 Teams admin portal

Teams:

Within this tab, you can manage your Teams groups. You can add, edit, delete your teams and channels,
make policies and update policies, create team templates, template policies and much more.
This is the interface displayed in the picture you get when you click in the groups there are five sub-tabs
under groups.

Figure 2 Teams

How to create a team group

1. Click on teams then manage teams

Figure 3 Manage teams

2. Click on +Add

Figure 4 Click on +Add

3. A new interface will be displayed from the left side and give the name, description, team owners, and privacy type. Then click on apply.

Figure 5 click on apply

How to delete a team

1. Select the team you want to delete
2. Click on the delete option as shown in the image

Figure 6 Delete a team

3. Click on the delete again if asked for confirmation.

Figure 7 Confirmation

1. Click a team group that you want to remove or add members or owners
2. Click on the members' option as shown in the image below

Figure 8 Members

3. If you want to add a new member or owner, click on +Add

Figure 9 Add a new member

4. If you want to remove a member or owner, select the member from the list below a click
remove.

Figure 10 Remove a member

5. After clicking on +add, a new interface will be displayed from the lift side. Search for the member
you want to add and click apply.

Figure 11 Add and click apply

6. Now, if you want to make this user owner select that user, scroll to the right, and you will find a
role column under that column; click on members and change its role to the owner, as shown in
the image below.

Figure 12 Change its role to owner

How to add edit or delete channels from a team

1. Click on the team
2. Go to channels, here you will find all the list of channels that are in a team

Figure 13 Channels

3. To create channel, click on +Add
4. Give name, description and type (private or standard) click on apply

Figure 14 Click on apply

5. If you want to edit a channel, click on edit; here, you can only change the name, description, and privacy type.

Figure 15 Edit a channel

6. If you want to delete a channel, select that channel and click on delete. It will ask for confirmation. Select delete again, and your channel will be deleted.

Figure 16 Channel deleted