Microsoft Teams Step by Step

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Set up a team

In this chapter

• Create a team

• Manage your team’s members and guests

• Manage your team

When your Teams administrator sets up your organization’s Teams environment, an initial team is usually created automatically. This so-called org-wide team includes everyone in your organization. Many Teams organizations use only that initial team, modifying it as needed with new channels for different company purposes.

That one-team-only approach works well for small organizations and for organizations where it’s reasonable for all the employees to have access to everything that happens with that single team. However, it’s much more common to set up a team for each major company segment (such as a building, department, or floor), major company ...