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Unable to create channel - name in use
- Unfortunately you can’t. There was a bug that anything before like May of last year is stuck forever and never actually deleted. So your only option at this currently moment is to Create a new team with the channel.
You could try support. Not sure if they would be able to or go in and fix it on the back end or not.
ChrisWebbTech that is a HUGE UGHHHH!!!!!
Thanks for the info though.
so here we are Jan 21, about 3 weeks after this hit us. I opened a ticket with Microsoft on Jan 3 (actually my VAR, so MS didn't get involved for 2-3 days probably) and they have now confirmed it is an issue, and other customers are impacted. It is like they had no idea this was an issue. Am I the first one to file an official ticket on this?
I don't know how MS didn't hit this internally. We launched Teams in our org in Sept 2016, the day the beta went live, but they had to have been using it earlier, and this seems to only impact channels deleted in 2016, 2017, and I've had one Jan 2018 channel that I see still hanging around in the "Deleted Channels" section.
Maybe next I'll open a ticket on how to remove "OneNote" from the tabs of those very early Teams where it was a permanent tab just like Files and Conversations.
- Yes they know about it, support always seems disconnected with what's going on, and it's supposed to have been fixed for Teams created after May 2018. Problem is Teams before that I guess are SOL.