Forum Discussion
philmaynard_wap
Oct 04, 2019Iron Contributor
Blocked accounts removed from Microsoft Teams even though they're still in the O365 Group!
We've recently spotted that when we block an account in Office 365, the account is removed from the Teams it's in with a 'XYZ has been removed from the team.' message. This is behaviour we did not ex...
brunofelipens
May 19, 2020Copper Contributor
I opened a ticket with Microsoft and the answer was this:
When a user is blocked, either through Active Directory or directly in Office 365, the user is removed from teams in Microsoft Teams. This is the expected behavior for the tool (by design) and is linked to the policy evaluation service, which automatically searches Teams users, in order to prevent Teams users from violating any policies.
More details on the issue are available at the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/information-barriers-in-teams#how-policy-changes-impact-existing-chats