Creating a team
One of the most common functions that users and/or admins will utilize is creating new teams within Microsoft Teams. This recipe covers this fundamental process of creating a new team.
Getting ready
Depending on your organizational settings, most users will be able to create new teams without needing any admin roles. If you've restricted O365 group creation (see the Restricting users from creating new O365 groups recipe from Chapter 2, Office 365 Identity and Roles, only admins and members of the approved security group will be able to create teams.
How to do it…
- Open the Teams desktop application (or follow the exact same steps in the web app if you are unable to access the desktop app).
- Choose Join or create a team from the lower left-hand portion of the main Teams view:
Figure 9.1 – The Join or create a team option in the Teams client application
- Click Create team:
Figure 9.2 – The Create team button in the Teams client...
