Microsoft Teams: Delete Team - how to do it

With Microsoft Teams, you have the option to collaborate in teams to work on projects inside and outside your company. For this, the Office365 application offers you many useful features to make this easier. Here we show you how to delete a team.

How to delete a team in Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams you can create teams for different projects or tasks to keep track of them and have all the information in one place. If you now want to dissolve the team because the project is finished or for other reasons, then such a team can either be archived to reactivate it later or you can delete it completely. However, all histories and collected files in it are lost, which is why you should save everything important in advance.

1. First log in to Microsoft Teams as an admin.
2. After that, switch to "Teams" in the Admin Center.
3. Now select the team there that you want to delete. For this, simply click on the appropriate team name.
4. Thereupon select "Delete".
5. Now a confirmation message appears.
6. To delete the team now finally, click "Delete". Thereupon the team is completely removed and also all associated files, histories and other features are now deleted.