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TonyRedmond
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Mar 04, 2024

Managing the Discoverability of Private Teams

Microsoft has a new approach to control private team discoverability. You can have all-in access by enabling discoverability through Teams policies or granular access by using sensitivity labels to c...
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AndrewWarland
Iron Contributor
Jun 10, 2025

Hi Tony, one of my clients noticed that private teams are not discoverable even when the 'Discover private teams' is enabled (On) in the Teams Admin centre AND there are no sensitivity labels applied to Groups and Sites. We noticed that, if you created the private M365 Group first and included a Team, the Team was discoverable. But if an end user created the private Team first, the Team was not discoverable to others. The key difference between the two was that, when the Group was created first, 'HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled' was set to 'False' for the Unified Group but when the Team was created first, this setting was 'True'. 

Any idea what might be causing private Teams to remain undiscoverable (including via search) when the Teams setting to allow it is enabled and no sensitivity labels are applied to Groups and Teams? 

Thanks always, Andrew

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