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Delete Posts from General Channel
Hi All,
I know that I can not delete a general channel but I would like to delete posts to clean it up. Currently, when I click the "..." on a post the delete option is not available. I have read in other threads that this option needs to be turned on but I can not find instructions for doing so. I contacted my IT department and they can't seem to find this option either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Still works for me, use an in-private browser window, if not then go to your Office 365 admin portal, and click Teams admin, and messaging policies. If it still doens't show anything, something is up with your DNS / network for your ISP / Region
- How about how to delete posts from bots, e.g. SharePoint News Connector and others? How can these posts be deleted please?
Jeff Parker There is a video of a meeting posted into the General channel on our workgroup team by mistake. The option to "delete" this video post is not available on this video. We have deleted the video in Microsoft stream so at least it can't be played, but the video can still be seen in the General channel. This looks very untidy and unprofessional. How can Owners delete videos posted from Stream? We understand that this is not possible, which I'm hoping its not true.
- There is an option in messsging policies In the Teams admin center that allow owners to delete messages in a Team. That needs enabled and slot need to make sure it’s enabled on the specific teams settings tab. Once both of these are on you should be able to delete all messages on that team assuming you are an owner.
Hi Chris,
Could you be more specific as to where the settings are to enable an Owner to delete threads in Posts tabs? I have gone through all settings in both 365 Admin for Teams and the specific Team itself, and I still do not have the ability to clear the conversations.
For some context, a small group of three of us are familiarizing ourselves with Teams before we roll it out to our company. We set up a Team site that we intend to use for a set of projects. On the General tab, there has become a very lengthy string of actions we've made and test meetings and conversations, all in our process of checking out Teams and getting the site set the way we want it for the project group. I'd rather not have the Posts tabs cluttered with our changing this, renamed that, created this, made that person an owner, test, replying to test, etc. Further, how do I disable all the action notifications (changes, etc)?
As an owner in Teams, and the owner of our company, I am baffled by the difficulty in cleaning up all this clutter. It's overwhelming and is not a good look for our professional presentation of Teams to our people.
Please help!
Thank you,
Bill
- 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.
ChrisWebbTech Can you help at all please.
I am trying to tidy up our teams 'posts' in the General channel, to put it into context, we have 20 people posting throughout the day and i have been tasked with deleting everything outside of the previous week.
I am the owner so able to delete other colleagues posts, however, at the moment i am having to delete each posts and then the replies which is laborious and very time consuming. Is there anyway that i can delete multiple posts at the same time? Or clear the history totally?
Many thanks in advance
ChrisWebbTech I have everything enabled to be able to delete posts in a TEAMS channel but posts that were automatically published by an added APP on the channel (the APP is Kahoot! for example) the option to delete the Kahoot post is still not available. Is there a way to remove posts in a teams channel from an APP?
- Some messages cannot be deleted even though all "deletion settings" are ok. That's why this was added and being on the backlog https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e6ba0d0f-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827bbc2
You should vote on it to stay updated when status changes.
