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Apr 06, 2020

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Disabled users removed from Teams

I have a customer that wants to know why a team owner was selected as having removed users from a team when he didn't remove them. The scenario: Three users were disabled in AD. They were not remov...

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Laurie Pottmeyer
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.

Laurie Pottmeyer

Former Employee

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.

Thomas Sawyer

Copper Contributor

Jul 13, 2020

Laurie Pottmeyer

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!

Dan Robson
Brass Contributor
Sep 25, 2020
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.
- _Przemek_
  Copper Contributor
  Sep 25, 2020
  Do not disable their user accounts in AD, just set the allowed login days / hours
  - Dan Robson
    Brass Contributor
    Sep 25, 2020
    _Przemek_ would that restrict access to Office 365? Considering that expired accounts can still access O365 I'd be surprised if changing the allowed days sync's to Office 365. I do like the idea though!
ShaneOss
Brass Contributor
Aug 09, 2020
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.