Within Microsoft Teams there are two user roles: Owner and Team Members. Keep in mind, a user who creates a new team is granted the Owner status. If a team is created from an existing Office 365 Group, permissions are inherited.
Note: Owners can make other members owners in the View teams option. A team can have up to 100 owners. It’s recommended to have at least a few owners to help manage the team; this will also prevent orphaned groups if the sole owner leaves your organization. For more documentation from Microsoft on orphaned groups and how to assign a new owner to them, click here.
Add Owners and Members to Microsoft Teams
Desktop
If you want to make someone an owner, view who’s an owner of an existing team, or add team members go to the team name and click More options > Manage team.
The Role column tells you if someone is a team member or owner. To make someone an owner, click Member and then select Owner.
You can also make someone a team owner while you’re creating a team. When you’re adding team members, designate whether each new person is going to be a team member or team owner by clicking Owner under the Member menu.
iOS
Tap Teams, go to the team name, and tap More options > View members. If you’re a team owner, you can make someone a team owner by tapping a user profile and choosing Make owner.
Android
If you’re a team owner, tap Teams, go to the team name, and tap More options > Manage members.
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The Need for Microsoft Teams Management Tool
The Cayosoft Solution
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The tool also provides enterprise visibility to Microsoft Teams that were created, current team settings, team usage statistics, and empty ownership and membership. You can use these reports to build an inventory of your Teams environment and analyze it for possible optimization, restructuring, or to satisfy enterprise security admins or compliance auditors with Microsoft Teams Reporting to sustain enterprise level security and compliance.
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