Each person in a Microsoft Team has a role, and each one has different permissions.
Owners
Team owners manage certain settings for the Team. They add and remove members and guests, change Team settings, and handle administrative tasks. There can be multiple owners in a Team.
Members
Members are the most common type of role in a Team. They can talk with other people in the Team, view and usually upload and change files. They also do the usual sorts of collaboration that the team owners have permitted.
Guests
Guests are people from outside of University of Leeds that a Team owner can invite into a Team. Guests have fewer capabilities than Team members or Team owners, but there's still a lot they can do.
The following table shows the capabilities available for each role:
| Capability | Owner | Member | Guest |
| Create a channel | X | X | X |
| Participate in a private chat* | X | X | X |
| Participate in a channel conversation | X | X | X |
| Share a channel file | X | X | X |
| Share a chat file | X | X | |
| Add apps (such as tabs, bots, or connectors) | X | X | |
| Can be invited via any work or school account for Microsoft 365 | X | ||
| Add or remove members and guests | X | ||
| Edit or delete a team | X | ||
| Set team permissions for channels, tabs, and connectors | X | ||
| Change the team picture | X | ||
| Add guests to a team | X | ||
| Auto-show channels for the whole team | X | ||
| Control @[team name] mentions | X | ||
| Allow @channel or @[channel name] mentions | X | ||
| Allow usage of emoji, GIFs, and memes | X | ||
| Renew a team | X | ||
| Archive or restore a team | X | ||
| Record team meeting | X | X |
* Guests that have been added to a University of Leeds Team are able to participate in private Teams chats with members of the University.