Get started with Teams templates in the admin center

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  • Applies to:
    Microsoft Teams

Custom templates are not yet supported for EDU customers.

Note

Teams templates currently don't support creating private channels. Private channel creation isn't included in template definitions.

Teams templates are pre-built definitions of a team's structure designed around a business need or project. Use pre-built templates or create your own template. Teams templates let you quickly create rich collaboration spaces with channels for different topics and preinstall apps to pull in mission-critical content and services. Teams templates provide a predefined team structure that can help you easily create consistent teams across your organization. Currently you can create a team from a template in Teams or using Microsoft Graph.

This article describes the properties that can be defined in templates, what base template types are, and how you can use a few samples requests to create a team from a template.

This article is for you if you're responsible for planning, deploying, and managing multiple teams across your organization

Teams template capabilities

Most properties in a team are included and supported by templates. But there are a few properties and features that aren't currently supported. The following table provides a quick summary of what's included and what's not included in Teams templates.

Team properties supported by Teams templates Team properties not yet supported by Teams templates
Base template type Team membership
Team name Team picture
Team description Channel settings
Team visibility (public or private) Connectors
Team settings (for example, member, guest, @ mentions) Files and content
Autofavorite channel
Installed app
Pinned tabs

Note

We'll be adding more template capabilities in future releases of Microsoft Teams, so check back for the most up-to-date information on supported properties.

What are base template types

Base template types are special templates that Microsoft created for specific industries. These base templates often contain proprietary apps that aren't available in the apps store.

Once a base template type is defined, you can extend or override these special templates with additional properties that you'd like to specify. Some base template types contain properties that can't be overridden.

Note

Pre-defined base templates provided in Microsoft Teams can be duplicated but not edited.

Base template type baseTemplateId Properties that come with this base template
Adopt Office 365 com.microsoft.teams.template.AdoptOffice365 Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Champions corner
  • Team forms
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Calendar
Manage a project com.microsoft.teams.template.ManageAProject Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Resources
  • Planning
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • OneNote
  • Planner
  • Lists
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Manage an event com.microsoft.teams.template.ManageAnEvent Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Budget
  • Content
  • Logistics
  • Planning
  • Marketing and PR
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Website
  • YouTube
  • Planner
  • OneNote
Onboard employees com.microsoft.teams.template.OnboardEmployees Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Employee chat
  • Training
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Communities
  • Planner
Organize help desk com.microsoft.teams.template.OrganizeHelpDesk Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • FAQ
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • OneNote
  • Planner
  • Praise
Collaborate on patient care healthcareWard Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Huddles
  • Rounds
  • Staffing
  • Training
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Lists 
Collaborate on global crisis or event com.microsoft.teams.template.CollaborateOnAGlobalCrisisOrEvent Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • World news
  • Business continuity
  • Remote working
  • Internal comms
  • External comms
  • Approvals request
  • Customer complaints
  • Kudos
  • Executive update
Apps:
  • Praise
  • Wiki
  • Website
  • Planner
Collaborate within a bank branch com.microsoft.teams.template.CollaborateWithinABankBranch Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Huddles
  • Customer meetings
  • Approvals Request
  • Coaching
  • Skills development
  • Loan processing
  • Customer complaints
  • Kudos
  • Fun stuff
  • Compliance
Apps:
  • Praise
Coordinate incident response com.microsoft.teams.template.CoordinateIncidentResponse Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Logistics
  • Planning
  • Recovery
  • Urgent
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Excel
  • OneNote
  • SharePoint
  • Planner
Hospital healthcareHospital Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Compliance
  • Custodial
  • Human resources
  • Pharmacy
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Lists 
Organize a store retailStore Channels:
  • General
  • Shift handoff
  • Learning
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Planner
Quality and safety com.microsoft.teams.template.QualitySafety Channels:
  • General
  • Announcements
  • Line 1
  • Line 2
  • Line 3
  • Safety
  • Training
  • Maintenance
  • Fun stuff
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Planner
Retail - manager collaboration retailManagerCollaboration Channels:
  • General
  • Operations
  • Learning
Apps:
  • Wiki
  • Planner

For more information about the template categories, see the following categories:

Template size limits

Templates are limited to a specific number of channels, tabs, and apps.

Note

You can add more channels, tabs, and apps to the team after it's been created from a template.

Feature Limit
Channels per template 15
Tabs per channel in a template 20
Apps per template 50

See Limits and specifications of Teams for more information.