Getting Started Part 7: Configuring Teams

Published Date: May 1, 2026 | Last Updated: October 9, 2026

About: This article covers creating Teams in Seasoft Identity, assigning Users to Teams, and configuring manager assignments. By the end, the Administrator will have Teams active and drift notifications routing to the correct managers.

What Teams do

Teams in Seasoft Identity serve 1 purpose: notification routing. When a User's access changes — whether through a Role Template assignment, a manual provisioning action, or a drift event detected in a connected application — Seasoft Identity notifies the Team manager assigned to that User by email.

Teams do not control access. Assigning a User to a Team does not grant or restrict any permissions. Access is managed exclusively through Role Templates. Teams exist to keep the right people informed when access changes occur.

Every User should be assigned to a Team before monitoring begins. Without a Team assignment, access change notifications for that User have no destination.

Plan your Team structure

Teams typically map to organizational structure — a Team per department, business unit, or reporting line is the most common approach. The key decision is who receives notifications for which Users. For each Team the Administrator creates, identify:

• Team name — a descriptive label, typically the department or group name
• Manager — the person who receives email notifications when a User in this Team experiences an access change. This is typically the department lead or direct manager.
• Members — the Users whose access change notifications route to this Team's manager

Create a Team

1. Navigate to Teams in the left navigation.
2. Select + Create New.
3. Enter a name in the Team Name field.
4. [PLACEHOLDER: steps to assign a manager to the Team]
5. [PLACEHOLDER: steps to add Users to the Team]
6. Select Save. The Team appears in the Teams list.

Repeat this process for each Team in the organization's structure.

Verify Team assignments

After creating all Teams, confirm that every User has been assigned to a Team. Navigate to Users and review the list. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm whether Team assignment is visible as a column on the Users page, or only visible within the User detail view.] Any User not assigned to a Team will not generate notifications when their access changes.

How notifications work

Once Teams are configured, the assigned Team manager receives an email notification any time 1 of the following occurs for a User in their Team:

• A Role Template is assigned to or removed from the User
• Access is provisioned or deprovisioned in a connected application
• A drift event is detected — a permission change that occurred outside of Seasoft Identity in a connected application

Notifications are sent automatically. No action is required from the Administrator to trigger them. The Team manager does not need access to the Seasoft Identity platform to receive notifications.

Confirmation

The Administrator is ready to proceed when all of the following are true:

• All Teams have been created and appear in the Teams list
• Each Team has an assigned manager
• All Users have been assigned to a Team

Next Steps

This article is Part 7 of the Getting Started with Seasoft Identity series.

Next: Getting Started Part 8: Monitoring Access

Previous: Getting Started Part 6: Configuring Role Templates

Getting Started series

1. Platform Overview
2. Connecting Your IDP & HR Integrations
3. Managing User Permissions
4. Connecting Additional Integrations
5. Planning Your Role Template Structure
6. Configuring Role Templates
7. Configuring Teams (current)
8. Monitoring Access