You shouldn't need to create a new Team to invite someone to an online Teams event. You can treat it more or less like Zoom for that purpose: create an event and invite them to that.

(Creating a Team would be for if you want them to be able to participate in ongoing chats, file-sharing, meetings on an ongoing basis, etc: the point of a Team is to gather all sorts of communications into a single space. That's not really necessary for a one-off event.)

A very quick how-to based on my version of Teams:
* go to your Calendar
* + New meeting
* Schedule meeting
* Fill out title, required attendees, date/time, and details if you want to provide context.
* You might want to browse the Options on the right depending how much control you want over how it runs
* If you want to assign specific roles to specific people (eg co-organiser, presenter, etc) then
        1) create and send the meeting making sure you've invited them
        2) then go back to Calendar, reopen the meeting, and select Meeting options
        3) look at Choose co-organizers / Who can present? and select the roles you want
        4) more info/options at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/roles-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-c16fa7d0-1666-4dde-8686-0a0bfe16e019?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us


Deborah

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My esteemed listmates,



I understand how Creating a New Team in mS Teams was a lot easier 2-3 years ago but when I open MS Teams (just downloaded and installed today) it does not display like the Googled results.



I want to create a new team so I can Add a person I need to “Team” invite in for a panel discussion at our library.



I click on Teams and see the Cog Wheel (like Setting in Android phone) but the new window does not offer Build a new tram from scratch. It only offers
3 options – Join a Team with a Code, EOC Daily Notifications and Lean In.



So, I’m stuck right at the start as all the Googled results display where you can click on Create a Team from Scratch… but not mine.



It’s my understanding to “Team In” a speaker remotely I would have to 1 – Create a Team 2- add this speaker’s name and email address or phone # to my New Team? 3 – Create an Invite and 4 – send that Invite.



Maybe 5 – confirm that the invite was accepted?



Has anyone within the past couple of weeks or month Created a New team with the new MS Teams app on a Windows 10 laptop?



Screenshots are best for me to follow but the only ones I find are older ones from 2021 and its seems MS Teams has changed a lot re: how it looks and acts.



Thank you so much.



Charles.



Charlotte County Public library

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