Forum Discussion
Is it possible to restrict users from creating channels folders, and files within teams?
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.
Tech Community is becoming a complete nonsense that I'm starting to avoid when looking for real knowledge. Am I alone here?
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
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
Hi Josu_Lekaroz No, I'm not surprised by your comment - I just needed you to clarify it, which you kindly did. Yes, we are aware of the way that posts get "hijacked" and have discussed ways to try to "house clean" the discussions that get off topic, or separate the subjects, or archive some of the very old posts that are still getting comments, but none of the solutions we've discussed are ideal given that we want this to be a free-flowing discussion forum, and often there is still value in comments made a year or two or three ago.
We rely on the members to know enough to start a new thread when needed, and often the site admin staff will post a message reminding users of the best ways to use this forum (for example, use answers.microsoft.com for tech support, Uservoice to report bugs and feature requests, adhere to the Code of Conduct), but the level of experience of the members runs from novice to expert and with 213,000+ members, and hundreds of thousands of posts, it's hard to reel it all in.
