Introduction
Teams is a very simple application used in many organizations. It has communication channels to collaborate with other employees or external users.
Let’s discover how we can create a team in Microsoft Teams application with multiple ways and what are the components involved while creating other ways.
Create a new team using Teams
- You can create or join existing teams by searching the “Join or create a team” option in the left bottom corner of Teams software.
- Join or Create a Team - Click on "Create a Team" or "Join Team" option below as per your requirements.
- Create a team,
- Choose an option as per your choice - Private or Public
- Add members in Team: This will give you member access to your Team.
- After completing this step, you will find your team has been created with the above choice (Public/Private).
Create a team using Office365 group
- First Create Office O365 group,
- Sign in to the Azure Active Directory admin center as a global or user management admin.
- Go to Dashboard and find quick tasks in the right-top corner:
- Select the "Add a Group" option.
- Fill the required details to create new Office365 group as below.
- It will create an Office group with Office 365 Outlook email account and SharePoint Team site.
- Please note “Object ID” which is used for redirections (the last section mentions this).
- Click on SharePoint icon at the bottom
- It will redirect to your newly created SharePoint site - https://<yourTenentName>.sharepoint.com/sites/SampleUser2
- Click on the “Create Team” option in the left bottom
- After that, you will see Success! message and “Click here” link to go to your Teams.
- It redirects you to the Microsoft Teams application.
- In Redirect URL’s , you will see office 365 group ID mentioned which we have created earlier.
https://teams.microsoft.com/_? tenantId=0425423e-3d79-4513-a839-13c005ddfe21#/conversations/unknown?groupId=50286879-3780-4592-8309-eadc6b4a09b7&threadId=19:[email protected]&ctx=channel
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a7536f68373cc40abbbc5936b44cf725e%40thread.skype/General?groupId=50286879-3780-4592-8309-eadc6b4a09b7&tenantId=0425423e-3d79-4513-a839-13c005ddfe21
Summary
Teams is made up of integrations of Office365 AD groups, Office Outlook and SharePoint Online applications and more.