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Best Practice or standards for creating a Team, No of Channels or Group Chat ?
Hello,
As MS Teams is a self service app, where each Business Unit or resource can easily creates a Team with multiple channels, this might end up with multiple unused Teams or Channels or group chats.
Are there any standards to when to create a Team, no of Channels vs Group chat, like some norms and guidelines to share with colleagues on best practices ?
Thanks,
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- "Inherited" a chat from a former employee. There doesn't seem to be a Channel or Teams associated with it (not that I can see). No idea why they set it up this way, but there are 250+ people in the chat. I want to "right the ship" and move it all to a Teams with channels, etc. 1) How can i find the team/channel associated if I'm not the owner. I'm creating the new process but dont want too much disruption to leadership who are part of this community 2) how can i export the chat attendees so that i might be able to add them to the new channel/team?
FrustrationTeams1012 About 2) You can use Graph to get the members of the group chat
List members of a chat - Microsoft Graph v1.0 | Microsoft Learn
- Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem like my Company/org will allow me to access Microsoft Graph. Seems like such a simple things (getting a list of chat members) but I guess there isn't a simple way.
Cmatni I think all these boils down to Teams management and governance--how you allow your users to create teams and channels, and ultimately how you're going to handle lifecycle of the created teams, chats, and channels especially when most are project-based. You can check these resources out to know more about best management and governance practices 🙂
- ebook: https://www.avepoint.com/ebook/microsoft-teams-best-practices
- https://www.avepoint.com/blog/manage/microsoft-teams-admin-center-management/
- https://www.avepoint.com/blog/manage/microsoft-teams-lifecycle/
- https://www.avepoint.com/ebook/microsoft-teams-office-365-groups
- Hello!
I believe this should be your starting point if you didn't still see this
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-adoption-understand-teams-and-channels
There, you can have a first understanding in how you could organize teams and channels, and then you can move on the different sections that I think will also be useful for your scenario
