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Brass Contributor

Sep 10, 2020

Solved

Disable channel creation

Hi, Is there a global setting to prevent users from creating new channels? I can only find a way to disable private channels, but nothing for ordinary channels? -Michael

microsoft teams

Settings

ChristianBergstrom
Sep 10, 2020
miclarsen1 Hi! I believe you're looking for 'Set-Team' and the -AllowCreateUpdateChannels parameter.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/set-team?view=teams-ps

sam919

Copper Contributor

Dec 17, 2021

ChristianBergstrom "Set-Team" changes settings for 1 team not all. Is there a setting at tenant level?

ChristianJBergstrom

MVP

Dec 17, 2021

sam919 Hi, try working with the Teams templates. But bear in mind you cannot use TAC (Teams admin center) because the team settings will not follow when using the GUI (don't ask me why). So, PowerShell or MS Graph for Teams is the way to go here.

sam919
Copper Contributor
Dec 17, 2021
ChristianJBergstrom What setting is that though? I want to change the default for all teams not 1 team at a time.
- ChristianJBergstrom
  MVP
  Dec 17, 2021
  Understood already.
  
  The settings for members and guests when using PowerShell is called AllowCreateUpdateChannels and AllowGuestCreateUpdateChannels
  
  When using Graph
  "memberSettings":
  "allowCreateUpdateChannels": false
  "guestSettings"
  "allowCreateUpdateChannels": false
  - sam919
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 17, 2021
    ChristianJBergstrom Do you mean using "Set-Team" command? I think "AllowCreateUpdateChannels" setting is for changing it for an existing Team. I probably can run it in a loop to update all Teams but when you create a new Team, the default is set to "true" which is not desirable. Please correct me if I'm wrong.