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Jul 17, 2024

Team Owners Can Rename the General Channel

 

In what seems to be a small change, team owners can rename general channels (naturally with ‘meaningful names.’ The change is more important than it seems because it’s associated with an effort to make users think about using channels as the basis for collaboration instead of always creating a new team. Being able to rename the General channel might make the channel more useful. After all, it’s just a regular channel.

 

https://office365itpros.com/2024/07/17/rename-general-channel/

  • TonyRedmond Any idea how this change will impact custom provisioning solutions for teams creation? Many have rolled their own based on PnP Core SDK, and worry about the release timeline which states that targeted and general release are the same. We've not got this is any dev tenant yet, so can't verify the functionality before it might suddenly appear in production environments.

    • TonyRedmond's avatar
      TonyRedmond
      MVP
      Any solution that creates Teams needs to be tested to ensure that authentication continues to work. I might take this opportunuity to move away from PnP for Teams creation and use the Graph APIs instead. That would seem to be a better long-term option.
  • JanSlowik's avatar
    JanSlowik
    Copper Contributor
    Hi Tony, are you aware if there is any option in Teams to disable this functionality? The MC814583 seams not to mention any options to control the access to this new feature for our users.
    • TonyRedmond's avatar
      TonyRedmond
      MVP
      I'm unaware of any management setting to control changing the name of the General channel. I don't think one will come either because this change marks the transition of the General channel from being a special object within a team to being just another regular channel.

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