Teams are a new concept introduced to Dynamics CRM 2011 that allows an organization to group individuals and assign to those groups records within the system. A couple of interesting notes:
A team may have a security role assigned to it. Any team member (user) will inherit the team's security. If no security role is assigned to a team, then that team cannot be assigned any records.
Like other part of Dynamics CRM when it comes to security, the highest privilege wins. That is, if a user has a security role and the team has a security role, when performing an action, the highest privilege wins, regardless of whether that is defined on the user or on the team.
Teams can be deleted where as users cannot. However, a team can only be deleted if there are no records assigned to it.
Teams are one way in which users from different business units can interact with a record. For example, let's say you have a user in Business Unit A, and a user in Business Unit B. The user in Business Unit...