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How to name or rename the General channel in Teams
You can encourage your users to provide a meaningful name to General channels in their teams.
The General channel can be renamed by the team owners to show up in the teams' and channels' list of...
Hi JoshuaF570,
Fom what i can see, is that it is not possible to turn this feature off.
If you renaming the general folder it will also rename the general folder name. i just tested it.
regards,
Jordy
Hi JoshuaF570,
Correct what Jordyvanveelen said, you can't turn off this feature.
If you rename the channel this will be reflected in the SharePoint folder accordingly.
Hope this answer your questions.
Kind regards
Giuliano
Correct what Jordyvanveelen said, you can't turn off this feature.
If you rename the channel this will be reflected in the SharePoint folder accordingly.
Hope this answer your questions.
Kind regards
Giuliano
- Thank-you Giuliano,
Any suggestions for how to make this work for a flow that previously templated the General Channel with tabs/etc.? Concerned about how we can do templating to a channel now that any channel can be renamed to anything so it's hard to setup flow when before it was easy to just template the "General" channel.- You can try using the Graph API and which one is the "General" channel, the string is still used and reserved in the backend
