Microsoft Teams - How-to Guides for Team Owners

Overview

This article lists the how-to guides, training and resources on using Microsoft Teams for Team Owners.

Details

Team management

• SFU MS Teams - Etiquette
• Plan a team 
• How are the teams at SFU structured
• Manually- vs. group-managed teams
• Change team description
• Change from private to public team
• Manage team settings and permissions
• Change between Group-managed and Manually-managed team

Channel Management

• Teams vs. channels
• Public vs. private channel 
• Create a channel in Teams 
• Send a message to a channel 
• Show or hide a team or channel 
• Change moderator roles and settings in a channel 
• Edit, delete, hide, or leave a channel 

Team Membership Management

• Add members
• Accept or deny requests to join a team
• Add role/sponsored accounts
• Add another team owner 
• Remove members
• Remove another team owner
• Roles and permission of a team (e.g., team owner, member, and guests)

External user/Guest Membership

• Who are guests? What are the capabilities of guests? 
• Add or remove guests
• Manage guest permissions for channels 

Delete, Archive & Restore

• Delete a team
• Archive or restore an archived team
• Delete or restore a channel

Advanced Settings

• Change team name
• Renew a team 

Team Owner Toolkit

Some resources in this section are undergoing development. Be sure to watch for updates and new releases. 

Teams Learning Centre - This is a learning centre put together by Microsoft to help with the basics of Microsoft Teams.

Team Member Training - Slide Deck (pptx) - Use this slide deck to onboard your team members to MS Teams. It provides a general walkthrough and covers the key features to get started.