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Admins to view all Teams
Hi, how can domain admins/O365 admins seel all Teams content? If I want to see a team I have to make myself an owner of the Team. Surely as an admin I should be able to view all Teams?
Hi Ayaz,
It’s currently limited to the way you describe above. Most orgs I know limit the ability to create Office 365 groups which restricts the creation process and therefore the creation of Teams. The global admin would then create the Teams with them as the owners.
It would need someone to look into but a flow may be able to automatically add the global admin as an owner if you create them via Forms, for example.
I would submit a uservoice if you want to see it introduced. The reason I think that Microsoft didn’t add this is because it would be like admins having access to all mailboxes. It would mean that nothing is private to users in the organisation. However, I can see why this is required particularly in environments like education. A high level of moderation and safeguarding is needed.
Hope that answers your question
Best, chris
It’s currently limited to the way you describe above. Most orgs I know limit the ability to create Office 365 groups which restricts the creation process and therefore the creation of Teams. The global admin would then create the Teams with them as the owners.
It would need someone to look into but a flow may be able to automatically add the global admin as an owner if you create them via Forms, for example.
I would submit a uservoice if you want to see it introduced. The reason I think that Microsoft didn’t add this is because it would be like admins having access to all mailboxes. It would mean that nothing is private to users in the organisation. However, I can see why this is required particularly in environments like education. A high level of moderation and safeguarding is needed.
Hope that answers your question
Best, chris
If you are only needing to see files you can make yourself site collection admin to the attached SharePoint sites by using the set-SPOsite command with -identity “siteurl” -issitecollectionadmin $true flag on. This will give access to files only without having to show up as being in the Teams.