Forum Discussion
Is it possible to restrict users from creating channels folders, and files within teams?
- Apr 21, 2020
Hellomadame206
Since the files you upload to a channel in Teams are stored in the underlying SharePoint site, you will have to workaround this in order for it to "work" like you want.
1: Edit the permissions on the channel libraries in Teams so the users cant create new items
2: Create other libraries directly in the SharePoint site and give the users permissions there
Allthough, you should probably skip step two and just get a Non-Office365 group connected SharePoint site for storing files then.
Kind Regards
Oliwer sjöberg
I needed to restrict file uploads in channels because I didn't want fragmentet information and documents created the wrong places. So I closed the restriction in the channels by "starting" folders in all channels, and then restricting access to them in sharepoint. In that way I only allowed team owners to access this folders and not the members. Only leaving the file-structure in General open for adding files for members.
- Josu_LekarozMay 24, 2021Brass ContributorThis thead is yet another mess. Anyone at MS supervising?
Tech Community is becoming a complete nonsense that I'm starting to avoid when looking for real knowledge. Am I alone here?- ThereseSolimenoMay 24, 2021Former Employee
Hi Josu_Lekaroz Could you be specific on what you think is "a mess' about this thread? This community is user-managed, so the more experienced users and heavy hitters like the MVPs and Teams experts (there are at least two of them who responded to the questions in this thread) try to help out the less experienced users.
If you need personalized tech support, you'd want to go to answers.microsoft.com or search the resources at https://support.microsoft.com
- Josu_LekarozMay 27, 2021Brass Contributor
IMHO far too many answers do not address the original question, they are (sometimes loosely) related to it and create frustration to the person who posed the question and confusion to the ones that search the community for knowledge.
To many answer seek personal praise (likes, best answers....) rather than helping others.
This is not new, I'm surprised you are surprised by my comment.
I suppose Microsoft is happy whith it, but they shouldn't be as it makes its community look unfocussed and unprofessional.
Regards