Set up a team

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Key points

Only create a new team if the team’s purpose can’t be fulfilled by an existing team.
Each person in a team has one of three roles: owner, member, or guest. These roles define the permissions available to each person within the team. Specific permissions are controlled by the Teams administrator for your organization.
When you create a team, you’re automatically assigned the owner role.
You can create a new team from scratch, from a template, from an existing team, or from an existing Microsoft 365 group.
There are three kinds of teams: private (invitation-only), public (anyone can join), and org-wide (includes everyone in your organization). Only Teams administrators can create org-wide teams.
Assign tags to team members based on attributes such as job title or department, and then message all those members by using an @mention of the tag.
To invite someone to join your private team, send them a team code or team link.
If you rarely use a team, hide it; if a team is inactive but you still want its content available, archive it; if a team is no longer viable and you don’t need its content, delete it.