From the course: Using Microsoft Teams and Outlook Together: Maximizing Productivity

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Roles in Teams

Roles in Teams

From the course: Using Microsoft Teams and Outlook Together: Maximizing Productivity

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Roles in Teams

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- [Presenter] I'm going to say this next piece slowly. If your organization allows you to, you can add external users as guests to a team in Microsoft Teams. There are organizations who tell users that's not possible. It's possible, but your organization may choose to turn it off as a security measure, but it is possible. Before we add guests, let's take a look at the roles that are available in Teams so that you are clear about what you are allowing someone to do if you add them as a guest. There are three primary roles in Teams, owners, members and guests. Owners are the administrators for the team, and a good practice is that every team has at least two owners so that people can go on vacation or have a day that they're busy with something else and they don't want to be doing administrative tasks, so two or more owners is a good idea. Owners have the ability to add and remove members and guests, so if you are going to add a guest to a team, you have to be a team owner or talk to…

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