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Seemingly random "{user} has been removed from this team"
Alex_Franklin Thanks for posting this problem.
I have been encountering something very similar where a message appears saying that I have removed someone from a Team when I know I have not done so. Seeing your message and the replies now gives me a starting point in how to address this issue. I have a lot of confused colleagues asking why I have removed other colleagues from various teams - when I have not done so. Thanks - Phil.
Phil_W_2001I just started searching for some answers because it looks like I am also unknowingly removing people from teams. I am a global admin and usually the creator of all the teams. My suspicion is that maybe a user left the team on their own and a default message is shown. I will open a ticket with Microsoft to look into it.
Dear Igor Karon
Thanks for offering to open a ticket on this issue.
I'm either the sole administrator or a co-administrator on the Teams where this is happening. Good to know that this is an issue - well reassuring to know not an isolated incident. Thanks for letting me know you have similar issues though I am sorry to hear you're suffering from the same problem. If I hear anything useful from our technical people (I work for a university and I have just flagged it up as an issue) I will let you know via this forum.
Regards from, Phil
In my case it was a user disabled in AD and when removed from a team it used a random owner name for the message. Per Microsoft it is a bug: "Also mentioned in the article above that there is planned work to move this to a system context so it will not show up as a random owner doing it but there is no timeline at this time." Here is the link they send me to:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/disabled-users-removed-from-teams/m-p/1284519
I had another occurrence of this issue where a user was not disabled in AD. I continued to troubleshoot it with Microsoft and today I received the final verdict:
"After investigating internally, confirmed that this is a known issue where Team would display the owner's name for removing the user from the team even though the owner has not removed it.
Mainly it has to do with the AAD sync cycle in the background where the sync cycle does not have the actor information, so it displays the random owner name in Teams.
Engineers are aware of this issue as multiple tenants have reported it and many ICM's are also being created for the same issue.
Engineers have acknowledged the issue and advised that they will be investigating it but at this point time they do not have any ETA for the resolution.
Changes made will be made in the future to prevent this behavior from happening again."