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KatrineHviid
Sep 12, 2024Copper Contributor
Adding owners in Teams - becomes members as well
Hi Microsoft Community, I am asking on behalf of one of our schools. The issue is regarding Teams. The IT-responsible creates a new new team and wishes to add other owners so they can manage th...
VasilMichev
Sep 12, 2024MVP
This is the expected behavior, each Owner of a Team/Group is also added as member. Back in the day (before 2020 IIRC), it was possible to have an owner who is not a member, but Microsoft since changed the behavior. So every owner will also be listed as a member of the team, and any regular channels therein. They will not however be auto-added to private/shared channels.
- KatrineHviidSep 16, 2024Copper Contributor
VasilMichev thanks for the reply. However we don't understand why the teachers can't have owner rights at the same time. Is that a bug or?