assign-roles-permissions.md

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Assign team owners and members in Microsoft Teams admin center	DaniEASmith	danismith	jtremper	how-to	admin	msteams	dansteve	06/13/2024	MET150	Learn to assign team owner and member roles and permissions in Microsoft Teams including permissions to create teams.	NOCSH	medium	chat-teams-channels-revamp	M365-collaboration	Microsoft Teams

Assign team owners and members in Microsoft Teams admin center

Owner and member are the two user roles within Microsoft Teams. The user who creates a new team is granted owner status by default. Owners and members have different types of permissions and capabilities when interacting with a team and its channels. See Overview of teams and channels in Microsoft Teams to learn more about roles in Teams.

Note

If a team is created from an existing Microsoft 365 group, permissions are inherited.

Assign a user role in Teams admin center

1. In the Teams admin center, expand Teams and select Manage teams.
2. Select the team name under the display name column.
3. In the Members tab, you can add or remove members and assign owner and moderator roles to members.

Restrict permission to create teams

All users with a mailbox in Exchange Online have permissions to create Microsoft 365 groups and a team within Microsoft Teams. Restrict users from creating new teams and Microsoft 365 groups by delegating group creation and management rights to a set of users. If this restriction is active, neither team owners or members can create new teams. For more information, see Manage who can create Microsoft 365 Groups.

User permissions based on assigned roles

The table below shows the difference in permissions between an owner and a member.

Teams

Teams tasks	Team Owner	Team Member
Create/Delete team	Yes	No
Edit team name/description	Yes	No
Add members to private team	Yes	No
Add members to public team	Yes	Yes
Request to add new member	N/A	Yes
Promote/Demote user status	Yes	No
Leave team	Yes	Yes
Add/Remove apps	Yes	Yes, if enabled by team owner

Channels

Standard channel tasks	Team Owner	Team Member
Create/Delete channel	Yes	Yes, if enabled by team owner
Edit channel name/description	Yes	Yes, if enabled by team owner
Private channel tasks
Create channel	Yes	Yes, if enabled by team owner
Delete channel	Yes	No
Edit channel name/description	No	N/A
Shared channel tasks
Create channel	Yes	No
Delete channel	Yes	No
Edit channel name/description	No	No