Office 365, Microsoft Teams Adding Guests
Adding Guests to a Microsoft Teams Team
Who are Teams guests?
Capability | Owner | Member | Guest |
Create a channel | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ |
Participate in private chat | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Participate in a channel conversation | ✓ |
✓ |
✓ |
Share a channel file |
✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
Share a chat file | ✓ |
✓ | |
Add apps (such as tabs, bots, or connectors) | ✓ |
✓ | |
Can be invited via any work or school account for Microsoft 365 | ✓ |
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Create a team | ✓ |
✓ | |
Delete or edit posted messages | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
Discover and join public teams | ✓ |
✓ | |
Add or remove members and guests | ✓ |
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Edit or delete a team | ✓ |
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Set team permissions for channels, tabs, and connectors | ✓ |
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Change the team picture | ✓ |
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Add guests to a team | ✓ |
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Auto-show channels for the whole team | ✓ |
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Control @[team name] mentions | ✓ |
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Allow @channel or @[channel name] mentions | ✓ |
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Allow usage of emoji, GIFs, and memes | ✓ |
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Renew a team | ✓ |
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Restore a team | ✓ |
Guests must have a Microsoft 365 work or school account. If the guest doesn’t yet have a Microsoft account associated with their email address, they will be directed to create one for free.
To add a guest to your team in Teams:
Select Teams
and go to the team in your team list.
Select More options
> Add member.
Enter the guest's email address. Anyone with a business or consumer email account, such as Outlook, Gmail, or others, can join your team as a guest.
(Optional) Add your guest's name. Select Edit guest information
. This can only be edited the first time the Guest is added to our Tenant. You will not be able to Edit Guest Information if they have been previously added as a Guest to another Team in our Tenant.
Click Add. Guests will receive a welcome email invitation that includes some information about joining Teams and what the guest experience is like.