Many organizations have more than one director. To make things easier for such an organization, Microsoft teams allows users to add multiple owners to a single team. If you want change member role or delete a member from any team in Microsoft Teams, you need to follow these steps.
As mentioned, some organizations appoint multiple people to manage a team and work as an administrator. With that in mind, Microsoft Teams offers different user roles so that such an organization can assign the right person to a job. You can find three different types of roles and they have different functionality:
- owners: A team owner can add or remove people from a team, make a privacy change, create a private team, and more.
- Members: A team member can create a channel, chat in a private team, create a private chat, share files, install applications, create a team, etc. However, all other administrator level accesses are not available for a “member” of a team.
- Guests: Suppose you want to invite someone to a team outside your organization. It can be a supplier, a business partner, a customer or anyone who does not have access to your organization. A guest user has minimal access as he / she can create a channel, participate in private chat or channel conversation, share a file, delete messages, etc.
Sometimes you may need to make someone an owner or convert an owner account to a “Members” account.
How to Change the Role of Members in Microsoft Teams
To change or modify a member’s role in Microsoft Teams, follow these steps:
- Open the Microsoft Teams site or application
- Click on the Manage team option
- Expand the drop-down menu for the current role
- Select a different role.
As with any other change to Microsoft Teams, you can do so from the official Microsoft Teams website as well as the Windows 10 application. In either case, open Microsoft Teams on your computer and select a team that has the ‘user. Then click on the three dots button visible next to the team name and select Manage the team option.
Here you will find all the users of your team under the Members tongue. Search for the user to modify the role and expand the drop-down menu (he must indicate as owner or member). After that, you need to select a different role for this user.
Your change must be saved immediately.
How to remove a member from Microsoft teams
Before trying to delete a user from Microsoft Teams, you should know that you cannot delete an owner directly. You must first change the role from “Owner” to “Member”; you can follow these steps-
- Open the Members tab in the Manage team window
- Click on the cross sign
To start, you must select a team from which you want to remove the person. Now click on the three-dot button to expand the menu and choose Manage the team option. Now find the user you want to delete and click on the respective cross sign (x).
No confirmation is required and Microsoft Teams will immediately delete the user.
If you deleted someone by mistake, you can get them back quickly. For that, visit the same Members window and then click Add a member button. You should now search for the person’s name and select them accordingly.
It’s easy to create an owner or member and remove a member from Microsoft teams.
I hope you find this tutorial useful.