Allow global admin to be able to see all Teams (or sites) at one location or one page
It would be great from management point of view if we could see a list of all teams or their related sites from sharepoint at one location.
That way we'll know what all teams are there and it would be easy to navigate.

47 comments
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Karen commented
AS an admin I don't even have access to view sharepoint site collections created, when creating a private channel in Teams. When users are having issues or no access to files, I can't even see it unless i guess the URL. This is really bad governance.
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CJ commented
THIS WORKED WELL FOR US TODAY!
https://tomtalks.blog/2018/10/microsoft-teams-powershell-getting-all-teams-changing-team-settings-and-adding-and-removing-users-from-teams/Small PS script to add user as OWNER or MEMBER to each TEAM in the TENANT!..... great find.
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CJ commented
SO...... If I have 650 Teams, and need to add content to a cluster of these because they cover the same subject. Im global admin, do i have a means to add content from a central admin interface? Or can I not just "get added" to all teams as global admin?
Surely there must be a way? -
Saima commented
Any updates on this? It would be great to have the ability to manage/ access all the teams be default depending on the role assigned global administrator. if not is there away we can add a domain admin security group to all new team sites when created?
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Christopher Dormer commented
Any comment from Microsoft on this?
This is a dealbreaker, so many security issues unmanaged teams, site creations etc
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George commented
This is another design disaster! Just wonder who is the main architect for the MS Teams? Feeling a marketing person has designed this product without any tech/CS background!
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Anonymous commented
This is the same architectural disaster implemented in MS-GROUPS. Years later MS still have no explanation as to why they want to allow 1000's of secret site collections to be created that are invisible to IT. Meanwhile their sales teams are pushing MS-TEAMS as if its the holy grail..like all the other ones before they've pushed - it isn't - its just a technology.
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Benjamin commented
Administrating Teams is annoying. Have to join each team before I can change library settings.
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Dario commented
I am shocked. I cannot think that a Global Admin cannot access the content of a Team but must explicitly join each Team or ask users to invite them to join ! Think about a user that creates a Team for itself for collecting illegal content.
Please, fix it asap ! -
Janice Headrick commented
900 team sites - I cannot administer 3/4 of them as I do not have access. Global Admin in O365 should have full rights.
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Anonymous commented
I agree, this is needed. As other admins have posted, our users aren't familiar with team sites, and I can't assist them because I can't access their teams without joining, or requesting to join, and then leaving.
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Anne Huber commented
I agree with other posters that we need a section in either the Teams Admin Center or the SharePoint admin center in order to do administrative tasks without having to join every team in our tenant.
Our users aren't familiar with modern team sites, and I can't assist them as a SharePoint administrator because I can't access their teams without joining, or requesting to join, and then leaving.
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Peter Hurst commented
Our new Teams admin console now lists about 50% of the teams created in our tenancy (it does the same on another tenancy) listing about 80 when we have about 160. it would be great if we could have the first part working before moving on to the second. Our Prem support people say "it's working through the system" and can't fix it.
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General Global commented
Want a mechanism to have the permissions of an Owner without also being a member of the team. E.g. so I can go to the SharePoint site for the team and set Site Collection features and other such things. Right now I have to add myself as an Owner, make my changes, then remove myself from the Team. I do not want to be a member of over 1,000 Teams all the time. Too much noise.
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William commented
Don’t know if this is what you are looking for but…
Using the example of a Teams site called testteam01 that has created a SharePoint site collection called testteam01
For new sites, teams and sharepoint, there will be a group with the same name as the site. Find this group and add yourself as an owner and you will be able to get in to the site.
If there is no group, or at least not an obviouse one, you can take ownership. For example a site called testteam01
1) Set-sposite -identity https://contosotoycompany.sharepoint.com/sites/testteam01 -owner youruser@contosotoycompany.com
2) Go into the site as this user, youruser@contosotoycompany.com
3) Site permissions from the cog in the top right
4) Advanced Permissions settings
5) Site collection administrators on the ribbon
6) Add users and groups here -
Barry Drew commented
Global Administrators must have admin permission to all sites in their Tennant. We now have dozens of sites generated by TEAMS that will never be used. Come on Microsoft fix this now
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Anonymous commented
It supposed to come to the admin. Portal for Teams / SfB.
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Anonymous commented
Yes, please implement
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David Fitzgibbon commented
agree totally