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User has access to SharePoint files for a team channel she's not a member of
- You are correct. A private channel creates a completely separate SPO site with it's own document library and you can update permission for this from the Teams channel itself. Any changes of permissions via the SPO site will be overwritten when the private channel synchronises so always administer from Teams.
The Private channel permissions are independent of the Team permissions but will inherit from the Team permissions at the point of creation.
Hi Hogne1260 ,
Users should only ever see information they have been given access too so something must be wrong with the permissions here. By default, if a user is a member of a Team they have access to all the channels and in turn the document library which stores the files. The exception to this is if you have created Private Channels. However, when creating Private Channels a Team site (SPO site) is created for each separate Private Channel so from your description of folders it doesn't sound like this is the case?
redmantauk By SPO, do you mean that the private channel will have a completely new SharePoint site with the same name as the channel? Or do you mean that it should have it's own folder structure, where the top folder has the same name as the private channel?
- You are correct. A private channel creates a completely separate SPO site with it's own document library and you can update permission for this from the Teams channel itself. Any changes of permissions via the SPO site will be overwritten when the private channel synchronises so always administer from Teams.
The Private channel permissions are independent of the Team permissions but will inherit from the Team permissions at the point of creation.redmantauk Thanks! I didn't know this. I have to update som of my documentation.
