How to Identify the Owners of a Teams Group

Knowing who owns any Teams group is a key part of Teams administration. In this article, we'll explore different ways to find out who the owners of a Teams group are.

1. Using Teams Admin Center
2. Using Microsoft Entra
3. Using PowerShell
4. Using CoreView

1. Using Teams Admin Center

• Navigate to the Teams Admin Center
• Under “Teams”, select “Manage teams”.

• Find the team you're interested in from the available list, and then click on its name.

• This will display the Teams group and its members. By sorting the “Role” column, you can easily see who the owners are.

2. Using Microsoft Entra

• Navigate to the Microsoft Entra Admin Center
• Select “Groups > All groups”
• Look up the Teams groups for which you want to find out the owners.

• Click on the Group name, then select “Owners” from the left menu. This will display the list of all the group owners.

3. Using PowerShell

Ensure that you have the Teams PowerShell module installed. For more information, refer to the Install Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module guide.

• Connect to Microsoft Teams: before executing any Teams-related cmdlets, you need to connect to the Teams service using administrative credentials. This is accomplished with the command:

Connect-MicrosoftTeams 

• Retrieve the Group ID: you can find the Group ID (GUID) for a specific Microsoft Teams team by using the Get-Team cmdlet combined with the -DisplayName parameter. This command would look something like this:

Get-Team -DisplayName “Teams Display Name”

Replace “Teams Display Name” with the actual display name of the team you want to query.

• Get Team Users: once you have the Group ID, you can retrieve details about the team users, including the owners, by using the Get-TeamUser cmdlet. The structure of the command is as follows:

Get-TeamUser -GroupId <String> -Role Owner
Replace <String> with the actual Group ID you obtained from the previous command. 

Example

Here's how the entire process might look in practice:

# Connect to Microsoft Teams
Connect-MicrosoftTeams

# Get the Group ID for the team
$team = Get-Team -DisplayName "My Team"
$groupId = $team.GroupId

# Get owners of the team
Get-TeamUser -GroupId $groupId -Role Owner

4. Using CoreView

• Go to the CoreView app.
• Under “Reports”, select “Teams”, then “Teams groups”.

• Search for the Teams group you want to know the owner of and click on “Open card in a new tab”.

• Click on the “Owners” tab to view the list of owners.

CoreView also has a special report called “Teams members”. In this report, you can filter by user to find all the Teams groups a user is a member or owner of. This is very useful when you want to change a user's Teams membership based on another user.