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This time I'm going to show you how to create a new team.
I need to create a team for my London-based collaborators
so to do this, I'm going to go to the teams app
and I have a link down here to join or create a team.
I have three ways to complete this task.
I can create the team from scratch,
from an existing group or team
or from a template.
Let's look at each one of these in turn.
First, 'from scratch'.
Now, this allows me to create a brand new empty team with no channels or tabs in it.
If I choose it, I'm asked whether the team is private or public or org wide.
Private means that only people I approve of can join.
Public means that anyone can join without my approval,
and org-wide means that everyone automatically joins.
I want to control who joins so I'll choose 'private',
then I name the team and I'll call it 'London',
and I'll add a description.
Then I choose 'create'.
Now I can add my members.
I just type the name of the people I want to join.
Teams looks them up in my organisation's directory and then I can choose them.
I can also choose roles.
People are either 'owners' or 'members'.
I'm going to make Polly an owner so she can manage the team with me,
and when I close this window you can see down here i've got my new London team,
and it has just one general channel and it's ready to go.
Next let's look at the 'From a group or team' option.
This is useful if you already have a team and you want to copy it,
or you already have a group and you want to add teams to it.
When I choose 'From a group or team',
the next choice is 'Team' or 'Microsoft 365 group'.
Now if I choose 'Team' here, I'm shown a list of all the teams I'm a member of.
I can choose one of these to base my new London team on, kind of like a template.
If I go back now and choose 'Microsoft 365 group',
it will show me a list of all the groups I'm an owner of
and I can choose to add teams to that group.
Now I can only do this once
because a Microsoft 365 group can only have one team attached to it.
Instead of using a group though,
this time I want to use my marketing team as a template.
So I go back,
I choose 'Team'
and then the marketing team.
It will let me name my team - London
and add a description
and I can choose whether it's public or private,
and then I get to choose what to include from the original marketing team.
I can copy existing content and settings
including channels tabs and apps to my new team.
I can even choose to add the members too, by checking here.
But I'm going to choose my own members so I'll press 'create' without checking that.
Then I can add the members and set the roles.
And now you can see my team is ready
and it has the same channels and tabs that the marketing team had.
The last option is to create the team from a template.
Using a template is a time saver because each template comes with channels and tabs already added.
Every template is based on a scenario that you might use it for.
For example, we have 'Manage a Project' or 'Onboard Employees', and loads more.
So I'm going to choose this 'Manage a Project' template,
then teams will show me what channels and apps can be added to my team
and if that doesn't fit I can always go back and choose another template
but from here, if I choose 'next',
I get to choose whether it's a private or public team
and I want to control who joins my London team so I'm going to choose 'Private',
then I'll add the title and description
and I get a chance to edit the channels here too.
I'm actually going to change this 'Announcements' channel to 'Social',
then I choose 'create',
and this can sometimes take a while so you might have to wait,
but once it's done,
I choose my members,
edit the roles
and then I have my new London team
and it has the channels and the tabs included from the template