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Brass Contributor

Dec 09, 2020

When a team is created the owner is not a member

Hello When i creat a new team in Microsoft Teams admin center with 1 owner and 2 members the created teams set owner will not become a member of that team. After the team is created i have to go ...

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Dominik Hoefling

MVP

Dec 09, 2020

michaelsjodin By default, a user who creates a new team is granted the owner status: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/assign-roles-permissions

Why would you want to do this? As you can see in the link above, an Owner has the same (and more) capabilities to manage a Team.

michaelsjodin

Brass Contributor

Jan 04, 2021

The reason is that the owner we add from Teams Admin Center do not get normal user rights or even counts as a "member" at all in Teams group if we do not go into AAD and add him manually after the Teams Group is created. Only when we add the owner to the AAD group the set owner has full admin and users rights in that Teams Group.

Dominik Hoefling
MVP
Jan 04, 2021
Interesting, thanks for the information. I don’t use the Teams admin center tbh, only putting owners to the Group, either via PS or the admin center. This sounds like a bug to me, why should the Teams admin center work different then M365 or AAD? I would suggest to open a support ticket, no clue what’s wrong here.
- michaelsjodin
  Brass Contributor
  Feb 18, 2021
  Hi again!
  
  I am going to bump this thread as i found a prime example of when the owner cannot do member stuff when they are only in the "owner" group.
  
  https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/microsoftteams/troubleshoot/known-issues/teams-owner-cannot-create-planner-tab
  - ChristianBergstrom
    Silver Contributor
    Feb 18, 2021
    michaelsjodin Yes! Thanks for making me remember what it was Michael. Can't believe I couldn't remember it being the Planner issue. Too much going on in the head I suppose 🤪