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Disabled users removed from Teams
- Apr 17, 2020
chai1900 - I spoke with our team today regarding your question.
Teams has some background workflows today that perform actions on behalf of existing owners when syncing changes from Groups to Teams. There is planned work to move this to a system context so it will not show up as a random owner doing it. I do not know the timeline at this time.In addition, there is an ask to suppress the 'user left the team' message and we are doing some work to mitigate this so that information is not shown in the general channel as it is today. I urge you to vote on this UserVoice item if you agree that the join / removed names should not be listed in the General channel to everyone. you can find that here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35515990-users-added-to-team-line-removed - The team is aware of this ask and working on that experience now - additional votes may influence timing of this one.Thank you for sharing the context for the ask.
can you give me the links to any other posts? It seems nobody has an answer to my question here, so i'm hoping there's something more on the other posts
As nobody got back to us I ended up running our own investigation with a third party. The best they could come up with was an update from Microsoft had caused a bug in the way that it reports additions and removals from a team when membership is managed automatically by an active directory group (and mistakenly reports that a Team owner performed an action). They suspect this will be fixed or patched later, but we are raising it with Microsoft anyway for more information.
We haven't been able to determine whether the Owner that teams picks in its message is a random owner, or determined by another factor.
- Laurie PottmeyerApr 17, 2020Silver Contributor
chai1900 - I spoke with our team today regarding your question.
Teams has some background workflows today that perform actions on behalf of existing owners when syncing changes from Groups to Teams. There is planned work to move this to a system context so it will not show up as a random owner doing it. I do not know the timeline at this time.In addition, there is an ask to suppress the 'user left the team' message and we are doing some work to mitigate this so that information is not shown in the general channel as it is today. I urge you to vote on this UserVoice item if you agree that the join / removed names should not be listed in the General channel to everyone. you can find that here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35515990-users-added-to-team-line-removed - The team is aware of this ask and working on that experience now - additional votes may influence timing of this one.Thank you for sharing the context for the ask.- phoebe_yu990Aug 13, 2020Copper Contributor
Regarding the message in the team coming from an owner even though they didn’t remove them, is it related to the following updates?
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2Fen-ie%2Fmicrosoft-365%2Froadmap%3Ffilters%3DMicrosoft%2520Teams%252CRolling%2520out%26searchterms%3D64173&data=02%7C01%7Cv-phyu%40microsoft.com%7Cc383a575959740f9ceff08d83e852234%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637328088871354611&sdata=y%2BnEQMG2hbrOGXrNMntYGXny%2B1rdNVVb6B31ysFJLwA%3D&reserved=0
- microsoftdeveloperSep 02, 2020Copper ContributorRandom owner or sometimes (Microsoft Team AadSync)is automatically deleting random user from the teams. what is going on
- chai1900Aug 11, 2020Copper Contributor
Laurie Pottmeyercan you confirm that the link you've shared also includes the 'removal of users' message too, as it appears to only talk about those who have been added to a Team. I can see its got a few thousand votes, a few hundred comments already, and been open for 2 years already with lots of people complaining about it not being implemented yet - do you have any idea on what the timeline is likely to actually be?
I'm happy to vote of course, but this isn't a 'feature', its a system log publicly reporting to users that an individual has performed an action that they have not actually undertaken. That's a pretty severe bug, a huge obstacle to us using Teams (and I can see from the comments on the link you've shared it s a showstopper for lots of others too). We simply can't use big teams right now because of this bug - it's far too sensitive in a climate where people are being laid off due to economic pressures to then have Teams claiming that a particular Team Owner has removed someone from a team who has been made redundant, when they didn't do anything.
- phoebe_yu990Aug 10, 2020Copper Contributor
Laurie Pottmeyer I'm wondering if there is any timeline for now?
We still encountered this issue that it randomly picked up the owner and stated that the owner remove the disabled user from the team.