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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
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
'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?
ChrisWebbTech Thanks for all the info. I have just enabled myself as admin / owner to delete sent messages in my different Teams.
BUT do you know how much time I have to wait to see the "delete..." option in the "..."? I have been waiting for > 20 min... Thanks
ChrisWebbTech I have enabled my messaging policy to allow owner deletes. I have also enabled owner deletes on the site. I was able to delete several messages in the General channel except for the last two.
On those when I click the ellipses the delete option is there but greyed out. I added a test message afterwards and it too has the word delete greyed out.
Any ideas what I need to do to delete these messages?
Thanks.
RickB710, Hey, did you resolve this problem? I also need to remove a whole year of posts and do not want to delete one at a time.
StephDude You would have to use a retention deletion policy or Search for and delete chat messages in Teams - Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs
- ChrisWebbTech I am new to the support of Teams. This problem has not been resolved. I have people tell me various options and they were either not applicable to me or what I have already tried.
If this has stumped the community is there a way to get to those in the know?
Please let me know.
Thanks.I think you can delete now that STream is no longer used....
Select the video in the Posts chat, Open in One Drive, then delete from there.
ChrisWebbTech the link takes me to
"The page you are looking for doesn't exist.
Please check the URL to make sure it's correct. Try refreshing the page or return back to the Teams admin center dashboard."
Any tip?
- 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 can't get into that page. Is that available in free version of Microsoft Teams?
Hello ChrisWebbTech
I manage an organization's Microsoft Teams platforms. And was trying to updated my settings to enable and disable few settings. As I was trying to update those organization wide settings, by default Microsoft Link - takes me to the Teams account which I am not using. But has the same email address. You shared updating and moderating policies for members using this link - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/delete-posts-from-general-channel/td-p/1250251
On other platforms like Azure, I can switch between directories and I am trying to access my current Teams account, so I can update the settings. Let me know if you or someone can guide me as we noticed some Spam messages and old messages of folks who currently aren't associated with the organization anymore. And also trying to understand how to add and remove users from the organization as they seem to appear on the organization chat locations or general groups.
Thank you for your help!
ChrisWebbTech wrote:
Messaging policy first need to be enabled: https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/policies/messaging/ChrisWebbTech The link takes me to something that doesn't exist... Am I doing something wrong or do I need different privileges?
AHA!
I didn't know the change took time to go into effect. Now, the "Owners can delete all messages" checkbox is visible and checked. "Delete" now shows up in the "..." for the messages. At some point, does the "This message has been deleted" bit go away? I'm looking to produce a clean slate.
So also for the clean slate, how does one get rid - and stay rid - of all the action updates (things changed, things created, etc.)?
Thank you,
Bill
- Where does the box "Owners can delete all messages" show up in Manage Teams>Settings show-up?
- This is what controls if the setting is available or not -AllowOwnerDeleteMessage and can be found in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmessagingpolicy?view=skype-ps
With this -AllowOwnerDeleteMessages found in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/set-team?view=teams-ps you can control if it should be checked or not under the Teams settings.
The team owner/owners can uncheck and check it as they like though.
- Yes, the message will go away, it only shows for you as well. As for system messages, can't do anything about them unfortunately. It's a long standing pain for many admin's.
Thanks, Chris.
I wonder why the developers haven't made it a priority to fix what seems like a pretty simple disable feature to add. I've read all the ranting. It surely can't be complicated to do.
Best,
Bill
