ArcGIS for Teams has account and license requirements. Depending on your user account privileges or role type, different product functionality may be available. The sections below describe the account types, privileges, and limitations in ArcGIS for Teams.
Microsoft 365 license
Your Microsoft 365 component must be licensed through Microsoft. See Microsoft 365 Licenses for more information.
ArcGIS account
When you use ArcGIS for Teams, you are prompted to sign in. You can sign in with your ArcGIS organizational account or continue as a guest user. Guest users and ArcGIS account holders have different privileges in ArcGIS for Teams and have access to differing levels of content and capabilities. The following describes some of these differences:
- ArcGIS account—To access additional functionality in ArcGIS for Teams, sign in with your ArcGIS organizational account credentials. The functionality available is based on the ArcGIS user type and role configured by your ArcGIS organization administrator. If you do not have an ArcGIS account, you can sign up for a free trial ArcGIS Online subscription. It is assumed that the authentication method used to access your ArcGIS account has been properly configured by your ArcGIS organization administrator.
Add or delete members
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As an organization's administrator you can add members by assigning user types and privileges. You can also delete or remove members from your organization. You need to sign in to ArcGIS to perform these actions.
To add or delete members from your organization, complete the following steps.
- In ArcGIS for Teams, access the Options tab.
- Click My Profile to ensure that your user role is Administrator.
- Go to and click My organization.
Your organization pane appears with a complete list of all the organization's members, their user types, roles, and information about available and assigned credits.
- Optionally, sort through the list of all the organization's members by typing keywords in the Search text box
. - To delete a member from your organization list, hover over the name of the member and click to select that member.
You can either click Open in portal
or Delete 
. - Click Delete.
- Optionally, if you click Open in portal, your ArcGIS organization page opens to the Members tab.
- To add a new member to your organization, click New member
.The Add new members pane appears. Provide information in all the fields. The User types drop-down list shows the number of specific user types available.
- Click Add.
Tip:
As an ArcGIS administrator you can add or delete members that are in, or are outside of your organization.
Considerations
Keep the following in mind when adding and deleting members:
- If a member in your organization's list does not belong to a group or owns no content, you can delete them by accessing your ArcGIS organization by opening in the browser.
- You can assign add-on licenses, groups, and credits once the new member is added to your organization. You can manage this by hovering over the name, selecting the member, and opening your browser to access your ArcGIS account's Members tab.
- When in an ArcGIS for Teams meeting scope, as an administrator, you add a new member to your organization, they can then follow the prompts to sign in to ArcGIS and continue viewing shared items that are privately saved.
User types, roles, and privileges
Your ability to perform certain actions in ArcGIS for Teams is affected by the privileges granted to your ArcGIS organizational account. Different user types and roles have varying levels of privileges included by default. The following table shows the default user types and related available actions in ArcGIS for Teams where applicable:
| Action | Guest user | Viewer, Mobile Worker, or Contributor 1 | Creator, Professional, or Professional Plus |
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Choose basemaps | Esri default set of four basemaps |
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Plot x,y data on the map |
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Add public ArcGIS content |
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Search locations |
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Dynamic filtering |
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Edit locations |
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Map controls |
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Measure |
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Geosearch |
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Add content from your ArcGIS account |
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Print a map |
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Geocoding |
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Network (Drive time) analysis |
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Buffer analysis |
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ArcGIS GeoEnrichment Service and information cards |
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Share a map or layer |
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ArcGIS for Teams AI assistant (beta) |
Note:If you are not signed in to ArcGIS, you can still access public content and return standard search results. |
Note:
For ArcGIS Enterprise, when a utility service is set up from ArcGIS Online, users may need the View content shared with organization privilege to access the service.
For more information about ArcGIS user types, roles, and privileges, refer to the ArcGIS Online documentation and ArcGIS Enterprise documentation.
ArcGIS authentication
ArcGIS for Teams works directly with an ArcGIS Online organization or an on-premises ArcGIS Enterprise deployment. Signing in to ArcGIS connects your Microsoft product to an ArcGIS organization and enables the full functionality of ArcGIS for Teams features.
The authentication method used to sign in is determined by the security features set up by your organization administrator. For more information about ArcGIS authentication and to ensure that security settings are properly implemented, refer to the security documentation for ArcGIS Online or ArcGIS Enterprise.
Authentication methods
You must be an organization administrator to administer ArcGIS authentication.
ArcGIS for Teams supports the following authentication methods for connecting to ArcGIS:
- Built-in accounts—Users provide their ArcGIS Online credentials. This results in the use of token-based authentication using OAuth 2.0.
- OpenID Connect—ArcGIS administrators can configure the ArcGIS Online sign-in page to show the OpenID Connect login. For more information, see Set up OpenID Connect logins in the ArcGIS Online help.
- Enterprise logins—Enterprise (organizational) logins are supported using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0. For more information about SAML, see Set up SAML logins in the ArcGIS Online help.
- IWA/PKI/LDAP/Smartcard—For more information about ArcGIS Enterprise authentication and IWA/PKI configuration, see Portal authentication configuration in the ArcGIS Enterprise help.