So far, only Teams Owners had the possibility to add new members to private Teams. Microsoft did not provide a mechanism so team members could also request new people to be added to the Team. Fortunately, that mechanism is already available so any Team member can ask to the owners of a private Team to add new people by using the “Add member” option:
Once a Team member uses that option, a dialog to request new members shows up. To send the request to the Team owners, a Team member only needs to click on “Send request”:
Team owners get a notification about the request (In Teams and also in their Inbox) and they can manage it in the new “Pending requests” section available in the Team administration:
Here, the Team owners can approve or deny the request to add new members to the Team. In any case, the Team member that made the request will receive an e-mail with the approval/rejection of his/her request. And that’s all about this really helpful new feature in Microsoft Teams.