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Private channel - sync to explorer doubles the site name
Hello everyone, I'm experiencing some odd behavior that I hope someone can explain. While in the Teams app, I created a private channel called "Payroll" in a team called "EVG-Finance" and then cl...
- Hi guys,
This is as designed. Private channels create separate site collections. In explorer, it is showing the name of the site collection not a duplication.
Example of standard channel
EVG-Finance (site collection) - General (Folder)
Example of private channel
EVG-Finance - Payroll (Site Collection) - Payroll (Folder)
Hope that makes sense. It is the way that Teams is architected. I can see how it’s confusing as part of the site collection is named the same as the folder and gives the impression when synced to explorer that it’s duplicated when it’s not.
Hope that answers your question. We all have the same 😄
Best, Chris
as Rob Ellis mentioned he is right On the followings:
- EVG-Finance = this is main Teams/Office 365 group name
- Payroll = this is the Url of the private Channel (EVG-Finance-Payroll) you can see it in explore as well while browsing the private channel site
- Payroll = this one is a folder inside document library as every channels created in teams it creates a folder in document library
note: if you change the private channel name to different the url will stay as it was created at first as of Feb 2020