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Andrea_Medina
Copper Contributor
Jan 27, 2021

Allow Teams Owners to Feed Delete Posts

Hello! Can we get a feature that allows group owners to delete spammy or inappropriate messages from a larger Teams Channel? Slack is great and has this feature, but I have been frustrated not being ...
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VasilMichev
MVP
Jan 28, 2021

Just to add to the above - Team owners can delete messages in all channels by default, you shouldnt need to modify the policy for this. This does not apply to admins however - if you want an admin to be able to delete messages, add them as Onwer of the team first.

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ChristianBergstrom
Silver Contributor
Jan 28, 2021

VasilMichev Hey Vasil, surely you still need to toggle on the setting in the policy "Owners can delete sent messages" first. This cannot be the default value (as it would create chaos in Teams with multiple owners).

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    ChristianBergstrom
    Silver Contributor
    Jan 28, 2021

    Hi guys, see above. Would you mind posting input on the default value? Can't be on by default as Vasil mentioned, right?! I cannot verify as my account is disabled.. (due to parental leave).

     

    ChrisWebbTech 

    adam deltinger 

    ChrisHoardMVP

     

    VasilMichev is of course welcome to provide input again as well! 😉

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      ChrisWebbTech
      MVP
      Jan 28, 2021
      It's on by default, always has been. And having it on or off doesn't matter since owners can just turn it on or off if they want. You can restrict it by policy thou for individual users across the board, but per Team is default and owner controlled setting.
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        ChristianBergstrom
        Silver Contributor
        Jan 30, 2021

        ChrisWebbTech VasilMichev adam deltinger Hello, done some digging and as far as I can tell it hasn't always been enabled by default https://petri.com/controlling-message-deletion-teams

         

        This is your own reply from another conversation just recently Chris.

         

        "Messaging policy first need to be enabled: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/messaging/ 
        'Owners can delete sent messages' is one that enables the ability to set at the Team level that owners can delete messages per Team setting.

        It takes time for this to apply, but without it, the options in the Manage Team > Settings Tab will not appear."

         

        Delete Posts from General Channel - Microsoft Tech Community

         

        This article even tells you that you have to enable it:

        https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/education/deploy/enable-teachers-to-delete-conversations-in-microsoft-teams

         

        So, if we should give the conversation starter a fair and correct answer. What should it be? Let me remind you that I'm not able to verify any settings myself as my account is disabled due to parental leave.

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