In Communities in Teams, community owners and members have different capabilities.

  • Members Members can participate in the community by sending and responding to messages, sharing links and files, starting meetings, and scheduling community events.

  • Owners Communities can have multiple owners. They will have an owner badge under their name. In addition to member capabilities, owners manage community settings and members. They can add and remove members, make members into owners, and update the community description and guidelines.

The following table explains owner and member capabilities in a community:

 Capability

Owner

Member

Add and remove members

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Share an invite link

Note: If an owner turns off sharing via link, invite links can't be shared, and any existing links won't work. 

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Start and join meetings

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Schedule events and meetings

Note: Only owners can create and update existing events. Existing events created by non-owners are still editable by creators of the event. 

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Send and reply to messages

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Edit or delete their own messages

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Delete messages sent by other members

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View a member's contact information

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Promote a member to an owner​​​​​​​ 

Note: Community owners have a badge under their name. 

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Demote an owner to a member

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Update community settings, including the picture and name

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Update the community description and guidelines

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Delete a community

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