Joining a Team

CHANGE PROMPT:
Change "Add team" to "Add or join a team": I avoided this button because I thought it would always create a new team. It wasn’t evident to me that I could browse for existing teams there too.

PREVIEW A TEAM:
Provide the ability to preview a Team without immediately joining, to see what the reason for the Team is and what Channels exist. It’s a little cumbersome to have to join, realize the Team isn’t what you thought it was, and leave.

TEAMS DISCOVERABILITY
Presently you have to know the name of a team to be able to search for it, if I am new to the company and I want to have a look to see what teams there are within my organisation I can’t currently, as I don’t know the names of them in the first place, it would be better if all public teams were visible.

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Vicky shared this idea · Mar 22, 2017 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

partially done ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Sep 9, 2018

I’m switching the status to Partially Done.

The request for a Preview Team is still in the works. No new information is available at this time.

Team Discoverability is still being worked upon, no details are available at this time. If you support this idea please navigate over to the main topic and vote for it! https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/

Change Prompt: this has been completed
-Warren

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working on it ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Aug 6, 2018

The request for a Preview Team is still in the works. No new information is available at this time.

As for the other items:
Team Discoverability is still being worked upon though again, no details at this time. The suggestion covering this is found at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/

Change Prompt: this has been completed
-Warren

working on it ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Jun 1, 2018

This request is still being worked upon.

Change Prompt: the prompt has been updated to imply both “join” or “create”. This is available in the public ring.

Preview Team is still in the works. Still no additional details at this time.

Team Discoverability is still being worked upon though again, no details at this time. The suggestion covering this is found at microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/..

-Warren

working on it ·

AdminWarren (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 12, 2018

This request is being worked upon.

Change Prompt: the prompt will be updated to imply both “join” or “create” – this should be coming soon.

Preview Team is still in the works. No details at this time.

Team Discoverability is still being worked upon though again, no details at this time. The suggestion covering this is found at https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/19470934

I’ll work to get some more details as they become available, so stay tuned.

And thank you again for all the feedback and suggestions.
-Warren

needs your feedback ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · May 3, 2017

Thanks for your feedback. You submitted this just six weeks ago and brought it to our attention, and we’re happy to report its now complete!

However, we have some follow up questions for you though:

1 — We want to improve how people first join Teams. Would you be interested in sharing your experience? Please add to the thread below exactly what your experience was when you first joined Teams and wanted to get started. Where you went, what your instincts were, what you were trying to achieve, etc.

2 — Would you want to talk to one of our researchers to share your thoughts? If so, sign up here and note “Join a Team” as your research interest. https://1drv.ms/xs/s!AryUNzh1ogZzif8pDcOcx2pW45I87w

Thanks again for your engagement — you are helping us make Teams better and better!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

planned ·

AdminSuphatra (Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams) responded · Apr 28, 2017

Thank you for elevating this! We’ve put it into planning.

For the latest updates to top user-requested items, check out our latest blog post: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Weekend-Reading-3/ba-p/65897

Suphatra

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Jamey Steinmann commented · December 7, 2018 6:52 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Ability to discover 365 groups both public and private already exists in outlook and we would like Teams to function the same way as joining a 365 group in Outlook does not add a user to the team or let them know if the group also has a corresponding team. When this is implemented I think the Private Team owners should be able to hide their team from discovery as this should satisfy those that require a team to not be visible.
Mike commented · November 16, 2018 6:16 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Can an admin confirm that this implementation will include the change so that ALL public teams will show up when someone goes to the Join a Team page? This is one of the biggest complaints from our users, including our Execs, is that they can't find the Teams they want because they don't show up on the Join a Team page even though they are public. At least make this a configurable option so I can our my instance of Teams show ALL the public teams.
Anonymous commented · October 10, 2018 3:26 PM · Flag as inappropriate

All public teams should be easily discoverable.
Stace Hamilton commented · October 5, 2018 10:29 AM · Flag as inappropriate

My new hires are continuously needing me to add them to teams as they cannot find them. Please add the ability to browse all public teams please. thx!
Clark Keller commented · September 26, 2018 12:17 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Desperately need to see all public teams in the list.
Charles McCann commented · September 11, 2018 4:06 AM · Flag as inappropriate

For the "Team Discovery" feature, I believe Warren was trying to link to:
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/19470934
Kayla Goff commented · September 10, 2018 6:20 AM · Flag as inappropriate

@Warren, what is this topic you want us to vote on? The URL https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/ just takes me to the main Uservoice page
Anonymous commented · September 10, 2018 5:56 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Not all Teams should be discoverable. If a team is collaborating on a confidential task, the Team and description should not be discoverable. Private Teams should remain private.
Anonymous commented · September 7, 2018 8:34 PM · Flag as inappropriate

please am looking for a soccer team to join, I have searched and I couldn't find any. so if someone could help me find a soccer team at Cookeville to join, I will be grateful. Am above 16
Brian commented · May 2, 2018 5:45 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This would be an awesome addition to teams. We are new to teams in my company and there is a steep learning curve. These additions would easy those challenges.

Thanks.
Anonymous commented · April 19, 2018 5:38 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Would love an option to send out a link to team that would show the team description and work with the 'Team owner approve new members' option. Typical use case as I email 40 colleagues and want those interested (significantly less than 40) to request membership. As mentioned in this thread, if you send out a team link in this scenario, it only opens up the user's Team client and not the request membership (and team description) page.
Natalie Crosby commented · March 28, 2018 12:49 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Would like to see an option for users to join a Team with a unique code, rather than the owner having to add members.
jamie commented · March 14, 2018 7:04 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a really huge differentiator between teams and other enterprise chat/collab apps. Teams/groups MUST be discoverable/browsable.
Rene commented · February 20, 2018 5:57 AM · Flag as inappropriate

join via link in a another team/channel to avoid searching for a channel. but join via direct link
Mike commented · February 13, 2018 7:41 AM · Flag as inappropriate

We have people who see two different things on the button on the bottom left. I see "Add Team". Person next to me sees "Create or Join a Team". No idea why it's different.

Regardless of what it's called, when I click that button I should see EVERY PUBLIC team in my organization. Right now, no one sees anything on that screen at all and it's very confusing to everyone. The only way someone can find a public team is if they know the exact name to search for it.

We've also had requests from people to be able to view a public team (read only) without actually Joining the team. Sometime you might just want to see what another team is up to but not join it and get all the notifications and things like that.
Anonymous commented · February 6, 2018 9:26 AM · Flag as inappropriate

You report this enhancement is now complete... but the significant portion of making public teams visible is not complete. Is there a separate enhancement request for that, or is it still in the works?
Barrie commented · January 23, 2018 7:24 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I have teams, find it very very basic and clunky not really an improvement or service I can do without, but I have been invited to a Teams private group by someone from Microsoft and all their invite does is opens the Join teams window in edge and then asks me to switch tenant.
Jordan Anderson commented · January 15, 2018 11:48 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This isn't working as designed. I still cannot see public teams. In fact, I don't see any results when adding a new team.
Justice Diven commented · January 10, 2018 3:53 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Issue is not closed for me. I still only see "Create a team" and one recommended public team. When I type single letters, I see that there are many more public teams available but I am not able to browse them. Need to make all public teams available to browse and select.
[Deleted User] commented · January 10, 2018 10:51 AM · Flag as inappropriate

The prompt now says "Create and join team"...It should say "Create or join team".

Once it opens "Suggested Teams", it does not display all Public Teams. It is ok to suggest teams at the top but we're still missing a directory of all public teams that a new employee is free to join.