Add or remove channel owners and members

Channels include two user roles—owners and members. Owners can invite team members to a channel and assign other channel owners. The person who creates the channel is automatically a channel owner.

Members are the people who are invited to join the channel. Owners can invite anyone at their organization to join their channel, and depending on the organization's settings, they can invite people from outside their organization to be channel guests. For more information about team and channel roles, see Memberships, roles, and settings | Microsoft documentation.

Cloud Commander enables you add or remove channel owners and members, and change channel ownership, for your managed tenants.

Requirements

  • You must be assigned the Microsoft Teams Writer role scoped to the tenants you want to manage.
  • To view and manage Microsoft Teams for a tenant, you must Request additional permissions for tenants for customer approval of the required Microsoft Teams permissions.

You can only add and remove channel owners and members for private and shared channels. Standard channels inherit all team owners and members from the team.

Add channel owners and members

  1. In the left navigation, select Solutions > Microsoft Teams.
  2. Use the global customer selector to choose the customers you want to view data for.
  3. Filter or search to find a team and select the display name to view the team's details.
  4. Go to the Channels tab.

    The channels for the selected team displays.

  5. Select the checkbox for the channel and select Edit channel members.

  6. Select Add members or Add owners.

  7. Select the checkbox for each member you want to add and select Add as members or Add as owners.

    Members/owners are added to the team but due to synchronization with Microsoft Entra ID, it may take a few minutes for them to display.

  8. Refresh the page from the top of the dialog to view new members and/or owners.

Remove channel owners and members

  1. In the left navigation, select Solutions > Microsoft Teams.
  2. Use the global customer selector to choose the customers you want to view data for.
  3. Filter or search to find a team and select the display name to view the team's details.
  4. Go to the Channels tab.

    The channels for the selected team displays.

  5. Select the checkbox for the channel and select Edit channel members.
  6. Select the checkbox for each member or owner you want to remove and select Remove from channel.

    There must always be one owner for the channel. You can't remove an owner of a channel, or change them to a member, if they are the only owner.

  7. Review your selections and select Remove members.

    It may take some time for the changes to display in the channel details. Refresh the page from the top of the dialog to see that the selected members and/or owners no longer display on Members tab.

Change channel ownership

  1. In the left navigation, select Solutions > Microsoft Teams.
  2. Use the global customer selector to choose the customers you want to view data for.
  3. Filter or search to find a team and select the display name to view the team's details.
  4. Go to the Channels tab.

    The channels for the selected team displays.

  5. Select the checkbox for the channel and select Edit channel members.
  6. You can change ownership for current owners or members:
    ChoiceAction
    Change owners to members.
    1. Select the checkbox for each owner and select Make members.
    2. Review your selections and select Make as members.

      There must always be one owner for the channel. You can't remove an owner of a channel, or change them to a member, if they are the only owner.

    Change members to owners.
    1. Select the checkbox for each member and select Make owners.
    2. Review your selections and select Make as owners.

    It may take some time for the changes to display in the team details. Refresh the page from the top of the dialog to see your changes.

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Updated: Nov 21, 2024