Change ownership in M365 Teams application

Question

As a small company, we recently started a pilot of several teams in the Teams application. I now see that I am the owner of these first teams, but should I drop out in any way, is there a possibility to transfer ownership to another participant or perhaps the administrator of our M365 environment?

Answer 1

Hi @Christiaan Boer
I agree with the above that you can change team ownership in the Teams client and Teams admin center.

A team can have multiple owners, and you can directly change the member to owner and then exit.

If you are a team owner, you can refer directly to the steps in the article.

The steps to set up in Teams admin center are as follows. You need to have administrator privileges.

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Answer 2

Hi @Christiaan Boer

You can either add another owner to the Team in MS Teams or use Microsoft Teams Admin Center to transfer ownership:

Make someone a team owner

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/make-someone-a-team-owner-09eb80c1-9f3b-4f6c-b6c0-45555d46ee2a

Teams Admin Center

1) Go to https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/teams/manage

2) Choose a team

3) Choose + Add under Members

4) Add a member

5) Change role from Member to Owner

Once you have added another owner you can remove yourself from being an owner.

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Answer 3

Hello Dillon,
I tried to login to Microsoft Teams Admin Center, but I’m not allowd to login there.
Who has the rights to login to Microsoft Teams Admin Center?
Is that A system administrator?

Grts Christiaan