Microsoft Teams: Create & Manage a Team

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Create a New Team
• View Team Members
• Add or Remove Team Members
• Manually Resync Team Membership
• Delete a Team

Overview

Microsoft Teams allows you to create "teams" that incorporate workspace chat, videoconferencing, and file collaboration among a group of members. This document provides additional information and instructions for creating and managing a team.

Create a New Team

To create a new team in Microsoft Teams, you must be the owner of an MCommunity group. Membership within new teams is based on your selected MCommunity group, and the team’s membership is synced with the membership (and subgroups) of the MCommunity group.

Once you have an MCommunity group of which you are an owner:

1. Go to teammate.euc.it.umich.edu and log in with your uniqname and UMICH password. Complete multi-factor authentication if prompted.
2. Click Create New Team.
3. Select the MCommunity group you’d like to associate with the team from the drop-down. If you don’t find the MCommunity group you want, click Refresh Groups.
4. Click Create Team.

Once a team is created, you can view the team members and add/remove U-M and external members.

View Team Members

1. Open Microsoft Teams (via the web or desktop app).
2. Click Teams in the left navigation, then click your team to open it.
3. Click the three-dots icon and select Manage team from the drop-down menu.
4. Click the Members tab at the top.

Owners and members will be listed on the page. If any members of the associated MCommunity group are missing from the team, manually resync the membership. Remember, external users (i.e., users with a non-UM email address) will not sync between Teams and MCommunity and must be added manually.

Add or Remove Team Members

Once a team is created, you can add or remove U-M and external members.

For U-M members (i.e., individuals with an @umich.edu email address), their access to the team is controlled by the team's associated MCommunity group. You can add or remove team members by adding or removing them from the MCommunity group. (It can take up to 24 hours for Microsoft Teams to sync with MCommunity. If you do not wish to wait for the automatic sync, you can manually resync the team membership.)

For external (non-UM) members (i.e., individuals with a non-UM email address), team access is managed manually in the Microsoft Teams web or desktop app. Microsoft Teams does not sync external members from MCommunity groups with the team. You (as the team owner) can add or remove external members to the team by adding/removing them from the team members in the app (not via MCommunity). 

Manually Resync Team Membership

It can take up to 24 hours for Microsoft Teams to sync with MCommunity. If you do not wish to wait for the automatic sync, you can manually resync the team membership.

1. Go to teammate.euc.it.umich.edu and log in with your uniqname and UMICH password. Complete multi-factor authentication if prompted.
2. Select your desired team from the displayed list.
3. Click Force Re-Synchronize and wait for the process to complete.

When you view your team membership again, the updated MCommunity membership should be visible in Teams.

Delete a Team

If a team is no longer needed, you can choose to delete it.

1. Go to teammate.euc.it.umich.edu and log in with your uniqname and UMICH password. Complete multi-factor authentication if prompted.
2. Select your desired team from the displayed list.
3. Click Delete Team.
4. Check the verification box to confirm you understand and click Delete.