Creating a team
In this section, we're going to create a new Microsoft Teams team from scratch. We'll focus on these three ways of creating new teams:
- Via the Microsoft Teams application or the SharePoint Online (SPO) site (power users)
- From the Microsoft Teams admin center (administrators)
- Via PowerShell (administrators)
Let's review each method, beginning with the Teams application.
Creating a new team from the Microsoft Teams client
As long as you haven't prevented the option as a global administrator, users in your organization can create teams themselves using the Teams client. Users will find this option in the lower left-hand corner of the Teams client in the channel navigation pane, as shown in the following screenshot:
After you select Join or create a team, you would click Create team. From here, you have the option to create a new team from scratch or...