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Delete Posts from General Channel
- 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
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.
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
I still cant believe that 4 years on this problem still hasnt been fixed. LozzaD
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 Hi Chris, I followed this thread when I ran into the same issue of not being able to grant a user the ability to delete their own posts from a teams group. After following these steps, it seems that the user is only able to select the "Delete" option when using Classic Teams and not New Teams. While a minor inconvenience, I was wondering if there is a reason these changes don't reflect in the New Teams? Is there another setting that needs to be addressed/selected to apply to the entirety of the users account?
