Add/Remove members from Teams Group

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Add a guest to your team

  1. Hover over the team name and select More options More options button > Add member Teams add member to chat . 

  2. Enter the guest's email address. Anyone with a business or consumer email account, such as Outlook, Gmail, or others, can join your team as a guest. Select their email again to confirm. 

    Note

    If you receive a "We didn't find any matches" error while trying to add a guest, your organization doesn't allow guests. 

  3. Add your guest's name by selecting Add (name) as a guest?. Be sure to do this now—you’ll need the help of an IT admin to do it later.

  4. Select Add. Guests will receive a welcome email invitation that includes some information about joining Teams and what the guest experience is like. 

Remove someone from a team in Microsoft Teams

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 members 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 More options More options button > Add member Teams add member to chat .

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