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Delete or Leave a Team

The differences between deleting and leaving a Team, and leaving an external organization that you may have joined.

This article applies to: Microsoft Teams

Leaving a Team means you will no longer be part of the Team or receive notifications. You may need to request access to rejoin the Team.

Deleting a Team (as an owner) means the Team is removed for everyone and all data related to the Team is deleted.

Leave a Different Organization

Sometimes you may be added as a guest to another tenant, such as an Ithaca member added to a Weill team to collaborate on a project. This other tenant is also called an "external organization."

If you wish to leave the organization, or to remove it from Teams, do the following:

  1. Go to your Microsoft Account.
  2. Click Organizations on the left. 
  3. Look for Other organizations you collaborate with.
  4. Click Leave for the organization you wish to leave. 
  5. On the following confirmation page, select Leave.  

    Important: If you leave an organization by mistake, there's no way to undo it. You'll have to wait for someone in that organization to invite you again.
  6. Your guest account will be deleted (you cannot delete your home account), as well as the record of any Teams groups that you joined. Your chats will remain visible to the other organization, but you will not be able to see them. 
If, for some reason, you leave an organization by mistake, someone in that organization will need to reinvite you to their tenant.

 

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