How to Add Additional Owners to a Team

Purpose

This article walks users through the steps needed to add additional owners to a Team. We can achieve this in two ways, one of which would be to promote an existing member as an additional owner, and the other would be to add a new member as an additional owner.

Procedure

Promote Existing Member as an Additional Owner

1. Go to the Teams tab in MS Teams.

2. To the right of the team name, select the More options button which is represented by three dot icon (..).

3. Select Manage team.

4. Select the drop-down icon next to "Members and guests" to view all team members.

5. The "Role" column on the right tells you if someone is a team Member or Owner.

• To make someone an owner, select the drop-down icon > Owner.

6. An additional owner has been successfully added to the team.

Add New Member as an Additional Owner

1. Go to the Teams tab in MS Teams.

2. To the right of the team name, select the More options button which is represented by three dots icon (..).

3. Select Manage team.

4. Select the Add member button.

5. You can now enter the name of the person that you would like to add as an owner and click on Add.

6. Click on the drop-down icon next to the "Member" option and select Owner from the drop-down.

7. Select the Close button.

8. You have now successfully added a new member as an additional owner for the Team.