About Teams and Channels in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams uses Teams and Channels to help groups collaborate. Teams serve as shared workspaces for departments, projects, or committees, while Channels organize conversations, files, and activities by topic. This guide provides a clear overview and links to official Microsoft resources for creating and managing Teams and Channels.

Basics

• Learn about teams and channels
• Team owner, member, and guest capabilities
• Video: Go to guide for team owners
• Video: Get your team up and running 

Joining a Team

• Find and join a team
• Use a link or code to join a team
• Create a link or a code for joining a team

Creating a Team

• Create a team from scratch
• Create a team from an existing team
• Create a team from an existing group
• Create a team from a template

Managing a Team

• Team owner capabilities
• Make someone a team owner
• Add members to a team
• Remove someone from a team
• Accept or deny requests to join a team
• Manage team settings and permissions
• Make a public team private
• View analytics for your teams
• Show or hide a team or channel
• Using tags in Teams
• Add content and notes to a team
• Reorder the teams list
• Delete a team
• Renew a team
• Archive or restore a team
• Leave a team
• Find more information about a teammate
• Use @mentions to get someone's attention

Adding Guests

• Add guests to a team
• Guest capabilities in Teams

Creating and Managing Channels

• Create a channel
• Set guest permissions for channels
• Change moderator roles and settings in a channel
• Understanding standard and private channels
• Show channel info
• Show or hide a team or channel
• Team member and guest capabilities
• Customize channel notifications
• Check a channel for notifications
• Delete a channel

Sharing Messages to Channels

• Send a message to a channel
• Send an announcement to a channel
• Send an email to a channel
• Cross-post a channel conversation 

Sharing Between Outlook and Teams

• Share to Outlook from Teams
• Reply to missed activity emails from Outlook

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