Org-wide teams for education tenants
Currently org-wide teams are not available for education tenants. They would be very beneficial as there are numerous use cases where students need automatically be enrolled in specific teams. Auto-add with dynamic groups is an option, however it is not accessible to tenants that do not have AD Premium licenses.

17 comments
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Anonymous commented
This is an perfect possibility to communicate with our school members and to inform them about news! Please implementate this option for educational uses.
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Julia Holgate Turner commented
My institution would also love to use an org-wide Team for college announcements. Our students really respond to Teams messages so I can see that a benefit could be realised in streamlining our communications through using an org-wide Team.
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Anonymous commented
This is a must. We want to use teams for our internal posts for information but can't due to this feature being missing
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C.Schmidt commented
Please activate this, it would be a great help!
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Marcus Horz commented
This is an essential feature for us. We would love if you enabled it.
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Kay commented
I agree with all that has been said so far and I would additionaly love to know what the reasoning was when turning this off for EDU tenants. Maybe then I could become friends with the decision...
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Ricardo Cruz commented
Hello I need this facilities.
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Anonymous commented
Hello, we need this because we have a democratic school and there are three teams that I constantly need to add members to so that the team will show up in their list. One of these is for school announcements, which I imagine many schools would utilize.
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Anonymous commented
It will help a great deal to have the org-wide team option made available to us as Education Tenants.
Mayokun Olumeru -
michelle commented
please enable!!!!! would be helpful with schools and COVID 19!
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Brady Gallese commented
Was hoping to enable this for my institution to help in the possibility that we may be going to all online classes for a period of time due to the coronavirus/COVID-19. Should this happen, all campus community members will not be seeing one another in informal/unstructured settings, it'd be nice to have an all-users team where everyone could connect and collaborate without being added to teams for formal group/class/etc.
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Basil Kurian Varghese commented
Expecting org-wide teams will be available for education tenants too, auto enrollments will resolve most of the issues for starting a specific set of task which all are involved.
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Anonymous commented
Hello, are there any new developments to this idea? org-wide-teams would be a perfect solution to inform all 1200 users of our campus about short-term events. Please reply to it@htl-ibk.at
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Dylan commented
I'm amazed this isn't a feature. We could replace our loudspeaker system + distribute newsletters with a school-wide team. There are many possible uses. Please get this in place.
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Anonymous commented
Especially in schools, short, fast information for pupils is an important possibility. We are not allowed to use WhatsApp for data protection reasons and so "teams" is really important.
To enable our headmaster to announce dates and short-term changes, an org-wide-channel would be a great support, since more than 1200 pupils and teachers attend our school.
In a large company like Microsoft or Volkswagen the boss won't write directly to all employees. In a school, this is a great opportunity for a director or IT team.
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Dominique Bugmann commented
It's a very important feature to have one big information channel org-wide.
AD Premium isn't an pricey option :) -
Anders Wallin commented
Yes, please enable ASAP.