About Teams and Channels in Microsoft Teams

Summary

This article focuses on the Teams and Channels functionalities in Microsoft Teams for employees, providing an overview and linking to supporting resources from Microsoft to create and manage Teams and Channels

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Overview

This article focuses specifically on the Teams and Channels functionalities in Microsoft Teams for employees. It provides a brief overview and then links out to supporting resources and how-to articles from Microsoft for additional help on creating and managing Teams and Channels

What are Teams and Channels?

Within the Microsoft Teams app, users can create Teams, which are collaborative workspaces made up of people, conversations, files, and tools all organized around a common purpose, project, or department. Each Team is further divided into Channels, which help organize discussions and content by topic, workflow, or function.

Training and Support

Basics

Joining a Team

Creating a Team

Managing a Team

Adding Guests

Creating and Managing Channels

Sharing Messages to Channels

Sharing Between Outlook and Teams

More Resources

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Article ID: 469
Created
Sun 6/19/22 8:52 AM
Modified
Fri 10/17/25 3:00 PM

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