Shared channel owner and member roles in Microsoft Teams

Team owners 

Team owners can: 

• Create shared channels

• Accept channel invites sent to their team

• See the name and description of all shared channels in a team

• Manage shared channels created in their team

• View channel owners

• Delete shared channels

• Restore deleted shared channels

• Manage shared channels

• View all channels in their team

• Remove a team from a shared channel

Channel owners 

The team owner who creates a shared channel is the channel owner. 
 

Shared channel owners can: 

• Add or remove other shared channel owners and members

• Manage, edit, and delete a shared channel

• Restore deleted shared channels

• Override default channel settings inherited from the team

Things to know:

• Removing a member from a team won’t remove them from a shared channel if the channel was shared with them directly

• If a shared channel becomes ownerless (if the channel owner leaves the company for example), the host organization will automatically convert an existing shared channel member to owner

Channel members

Shared channel members can collaborate with people outside their team or org without switching orgs.

Want to learn more? See First things to know about channels and First things to know about teams and channels.