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Mike Dumka
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Oct 23, 2020
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How to permanently delete a Microsoft Teams channel

Hi there, 

 

I am aware that once you delete a teams channel, it gets put into a 'place' where it can be restored by end users for 21 days.

 

But for teams that have a high channel usage is there a way to manually bypass that 21 days and permanently delete the channel faster so they can stay within their 200 channel limit?

 

Thanks! 

  • Hi, did a search but it seems as we still need to wait for an option to ”hard delete”. Not mentioned in the docs either. Noticed several UV requests and this is one of them.

    https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35662282-permanently-delete-a-channel

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      Mike Dumka
      Iron Contributor

      ChristianBergstrom Thanks buddy ... Yeah, I am looking to speed up that soft-delete phase if we can through something like PowerShell. I know this is real edge case type stuff, but surprisingly the business requirements make sense on this one. 

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        ChristianBergstrom
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        Hi, did a search but it seems as we still need to wait for an option to ”hard delete”. Not mentioned in the docs either. Noticed several UV requests and this is one of them.

        https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35662282-permanently-delete-a-channel