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

•  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

• 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.