Managing Members and Guests In Your Team

This article explains how to manage members and guests in your Microsoft Teams team.

Audience

This article is intended for owners of teams in Microsoft Teams.

Adding and Removing Members

As an owner of a team, you can add and remove members.

Add a member to your team

  1. In your teams listing, click the  ellipsis next to the team name you want to add the guest to.
    This is a screenshot of how to add a member to a team.
  2. Click More Options and then click Add Member.
  3. Type in the name or email address of the individual you want to add.
  4. Click Add.

Remove a member from your team

  1. In your teams listing, click the  ellipsis next to the team name you want to remove the guest from.
  2. Click  Manage Team and then click the Members tab.
  3. From the team member list, click the X to the right of the name of the member you'd like to remove.

Adding and Removing Guests

There are times when you need to collaborate with people who are not at Ithaca College. If you want to collaborate with them in Teams, you can add them to your team as a guest. Guests by default have fewer capabilities than team members or team owners.

When a guest is invited to join a team, they receive a welcome email message. This message includes some information about the team and what to expect now that they're a member. The guest must accept the invitation by selecting Open Microsoft Teams in the email message before they can access the team and its channels.

All team members see a message in the channel thread announcing that the team owner has added a guest and providing the guest's name. Everyone on the team can identify easily who is a guest. A tag in the upper-right corner of the channel thread indicates the number of guests on the team and a (Guest) label appears next to each guest's name.

Add a guest to your team

  1. In your teams listing, click the  ellipsis next to the team name you want to add the guest to.
    This is a screenshot of how to add a member to a team.
  2. Click More Options and then click Add Member.
  3. Type in the guest's email address. Anyone with a business or consumer email account, such as Outlook, Gmail, or others, can join your team as a guest.
  4. Type in your guest's name.
  5. Click  Edit Guest Information and type a friendly name for them.
  6. Click Add. Guests will receive a welcome email invitation that includes some information about joining Teams and what the guest experience is like.

Remove a guest from your team

  1. In your teams listing, click the  ellipsis next to the team name you want to remove the guest from.
  2. Click  Manage Team and then click the Members tab.
  3. From the team member list, click the X to the right of the name of the guest you'd like to remove.

Switch guest accounts in Teams

  1. At the top of Microsoft Teams, click the name of your tenant or profile picture.
  2. Click on the tenant to switch to.

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