What can team owners, members and guests do in Microsoft Teams?

Every member in Teams has a role, and for each role there are different permissions. In this blog you can see the different roles of team owners, members and guests.
What can team owners, members and guests do in Microsoft Teams?
Owners: Team owners manage certain settings for the team. They add and remove members, add guests, change team settings and perform administrative tasks. A team can have several owners.
Members: Members are the people who are part of the team. They can talk to other team members in conversations. They can view and usually upload files. They can participate participate in the usual types of collaboration allowed by team owners.
Guests: Guests are people from outside the organisation that a team owner invites to join the team, such as partners or consultants. Guests have fewer opportunities than team members or team owners, but they can still do a lot.
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Who can do what in Microsoft Teams?
Function | Owner | Member | Guest |
Create a channel | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
participateto a private chat | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
participateto a conversation | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Share a channel file | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Sharinga chat file | ![]() | ![]() | |
Add apps (such as tabs, bots or connectors) | ![]() | ![]() | |
Can be invited via a work or school account for Microsoft 365 | ![]() | ||
Create a team | ![]() | ![]() | |
Delete or edit posted messages | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
Search public teams and become a member | ![]() | ![]() | |
View organisational chart | ![]() | ![]() | |
Add or remove members and guests | ![]() | ||
Edit or delete a team | ![]() | ||
Setting the permissions of the teams for channels, tabs and connectors | ![]() | ||
Change the team image | ![]() | ||
Adding guests to a team | ![]() | ||
Automatically displaychannels for the entire team | ![]() | ||
@[teamname]-mentions | ![]() | ||
Allow @channel- or @[channelname]-mentions | ![]() | ||
Allow the use of emojis, GIFs and memes | ![]() | ||
Renewing a team | ![]() | ||
Archiving or restoring a team | ![]() |
Source: https://support.microsoft.com/nl-nl/office/de-mogelijkheden-voor-teameigenaren-leden-en-gasten-in- teams
What can team owners do more than guests and members?
Team owners can organise the team according to the needs of the members and guests. they can, for example:
- Prevent members from deleting channels, tabs and apps in Teams.
- Protect channels so that not everyone can post documents.
- Create read-only folders in order not to modify the created structures.
Read more: How to prevent users from deleting channels, tabs & apps in Teams (365tips.be)

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