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New member I invited appears in multiple Teams
Hi,
I guess you are using the free version of Teams where a Team with the same name as your Tenant is create. So if you setup a new Teams tenant called Contoso a Team will be created automatic that is called Contoso. When you invite someone to a team they will be added automatic to the first auto-created Team. You can remove them from that Team, but they will be added back.
This is called Org-Wide Team and you can select that when you create a new Team. You should also see the tag "Org-wide" in the upper left corner of the Team. Org-wide teams are also available in Teams payed version.
LinusCansby Thanks for your answer, I requested the Company Team owner to remove her from the Company Team. It's a bit confusing however...
Will the payable version of Teams overcome this issue?
Thanks
Actually deleting that user from the Company Team won't help since it will be re-added again. Org-Wide groups is a search group that searches for all users and add them to a Team. It works the same in the payed version of Teams, but there you don't have the option to delete users from a Org-Wide team.
The best for you to do if you invite someone external is to invite them as Guests instead of Members. Guests will not be included in the Org-Wide team. See this link and read about limitations for guests:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/guest-access
OK, thanks.
Crappy design tho...
- You could also simple right click and edit the default team and turn it to a private Team instead of an org wide team.
