These tasks are for the team lead or members who have been given a leader role. Most tasks can be done in your Team dashboard. For just a few, we'll send you to your Google Admin console.

Invite people to join your team

Make it easier for others to join your team

This feature is available only with the Essentials Starter edition.

As an administrator, you can let people on your team invite others to join.

1. Open Drive and at the bottom, click Team dashboard.
2. On the side, click Permissions.
3. Choose an option:
   • Allow team discovery—Whenever someone from your company signs up for an Essentials edition, they can find teams and have the option to join. Finding and joining discoverable teams will be available in the coming months.
   • Allow members to invite others to join—Anyone on your team can send invitations to others from your domain (such as your-company.com).

Send an invitation

1. Open Drive and at the bottom, click Team dashboard.
2. If you want to share a link to the team, click Copy invite link and share the link with anyone that you want to add to your team.
3. If you want to send an email invitation, click Invite people, enter the email addresses, and click Send invitation.The people that you invite need to accept the invitation and have an Essentials edition to join your team.

Cancel an invitation

1. Open Drive and at the bottom, click Team dashboard.
2. On the side, click People and scroll to the person.
3. Click More Cancel invite.
4. Click Cancel invitation to confirm.

Change a person's role on your team

1. Open Drive and click Team dashboard in the bottom-left corner.
2. On the left, click Users and scroll to the person.
3. Click More and select Change role.
4. Click a role:
   • Team admin—people who can add and remove users, manage billing, and change other settings in the Admin console.
   • User—people who can use Drive, Meet, and other apps but have no access to the team dashboard or Admin console.
5. Click Save changes.

Manage a user in the Admin console

The Admin console provides additional options for managing users on your team.

1. Open Drive and click Team dashboard in the bottom-left corner.
2. On the left, click Users and scroll to the person.
3. Click More and select Manage in Admin console.

Change your team's sharing permissions

Turn sharing on or off

1. Open Drive and click Team dashboard in the lower left corner.
2. On the left, click Permissions.
3. Click an option:
   • Off—people on your team can share files only with others on your team.
   • On—people on your team can share files with anyone.
4. Click Save changes.

Manage single sign-on (SSO) with Microsoft accounts

Turn SSO on or off

1. Open Drive and click Team dashboard in the lower left corner.
2. On the left, click Permissions.
3. Under Single sign-on (SSO), select an option:
   • None—People on your team sign in with their Google Account.
   • Microsoft (OIDC)—People on your team sign in with their Microsoft 365 account.
4. In the confirmation box, click Confirm.
5. If you selected Microsoft (OIDC), enter your Microsoft password.

   You'll also need to accept the OAuth consent and grant access to Microsoft Identity.