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Disabled users removed from Teams
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.
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.
chai1900 - I spoke with our team today regarding your question.
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
- Random owner or sometimes (Microsoft Team AadSync)is automatically deleting random user from the teams. what is going on
Anyone knows how to disable this or why it happens that AadSync removes members?
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.
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.
Will this also prevent a user whose sign in is blocked (BlockCredential:True) from being removed from a Team and its Channels? We expire accts in AD during vacation and map this to blocked sign in in AAD, and this is removing them from all their Teams!
- We have the same problem! We are disabling accounts when people are participating in a shared work program so they can't undertake work on the days they are not supposed to but removing from the Team and then being re-added to the Team causes issues. I've had reports of people not seeing posts made on the days they were out of the Team but days later they show up.
- Do not disable their user accounts in AD, just set the allowed login days / hours
I've seen a similar issue before. After some initially investigation we found that the owner used wasn't random. But it was the first Owner, in the list of Owners within a Team listed via Team Admin Centre.
Change the first owner to a member, then the actions are performed by the next owner in the list.
Laurie Pottmeyer , I guess that's related to this old thread https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/how-can-we-hide-the-user-has-joined-left-the-team-in-general/m-p/295601#M21931
