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Loophole on Microsoft teams
Hi there!
Recently, a student from my school found a loophole to send messages to a team/channel if you are disabled to send messages. I'm not sure if this is some kind of bug or glitch, but just wanted to let you know that if you wanted to send messages to a team/channel in which you are disabled, you can do so by just following the following steps:
- Go to a team/channel in which you are allowed to send text messages.
- Click on the format text icon (looks like a capital 'A' with a paintbrush next to it), and then you can see that the text box expands.
- Click on 'Post in multiple channels' on the top of the text box.
- A pop-up box will appear, and then choose the team/channel to which you want to post the message to. (Remember that you can only send a messagae to a team that you are a member of) and then click Update.
- Type whatever message you want to (please not that if you want to send files, you will have to upload it to some cloud service like OneDrive or Google Drive or Dropbox and then share a link, because file sharing across teams is not allowed, but it is possibble across channels), or just skip this step if you have already done it.
- Click on the Send Icon on the bottom right of the textbox, or click 'Ctrl + Enter' to send the message.
Voila! You have bypassed Teams restrictions set by your Admin! 🙂
I wonder what Microsoft Team's developer team is gonna do.
The best would be to create a support ticket with Microsoft about this and they will be able to collect log files and analyse them.
But so I understand you correct. You have set one channel to "Only owners can post messages" so students get a message telling them they can't post directly in that channel. But if they create a message in another channel and select to post in multiple channels, then they can post in that channel?
