Microsoft Teams: Adding or Removing Individuals from a Team

Overview

Microsoft Teams is an easy way to pull together a group to share, collaborate and communicate in one central location without the use of phone calls that take time away from our day or emails that can easily get buried.  From directly within Teams we can bring everyone together to share information, securely edit files live and at the same time, bring together Microsoft Office 365 apps (OneDrive, OneNote, Planner, Forms, etc) and third-party apps and websites in one place, tag members of the team in conversations or actions and customize the work through adding notes (OneNote and others) and other applications.  

Each semester, the Office of Information Technology will be automatically creating and populating your Class Teams for you.  However, while we can automatically add individuals, we cannot remove them.  This article will help you add missing individuals, and remove those who have dropped your course.

Add members to a team

  1. Go to the team name and select More options More options button > Add member Add Members icon.

  2. Start by typing a name, distribution list, security group, or a Microsoft 365 group. 

  3. When you're done adding members, select Add. You can make someone a team owner by selecting the down arrow next to Member. A team can have multiple owners. 

Notes: 

  • If you're not a team owner, you can submit a request and the team owner can then accept or deny it.

  • Global admins can consider creating an org-wide team that automatically adds everyone in their organization.

Remove someone from a team

If you're a team owner, you can remove someone from your team.

  1. Next to the team name, select More options More options button > Manage team Settings button.

  2. On the next screen, select Members, then locate the team member under Members and guests. 

    Tip: You can also search for a member by name. 

  3. Select Remove Teams Remove attachment X icon on the far right of the name of the person you'd like to remove.                      Screenshot of a team members list with add member, search, and remove options. Select the X on the right of a team member's name to remove them.​​​​​​​

To remove another team owner, first change their role from owner to member, then remove them.

After you remove someone from a team, you can always add them back to the team later on by selecting Add member.

Note: Team owners can remove members from a team, but only an admin can remove someone from the organization.

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