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User has access to SharePoint files for a team channel she's not a member of
We have a team with several channels. A couple of these channels are only open for a subset of this team. This means that not all team members can see or access these channels. Today, one user wh...
- 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.
Hogne1260 Did you ever get to the bottom of this because today (3 years after you posting!) a user has just come across the exact same thing which has concerned me massively with the amount of other teams we have. One thing I noticed is that looking at the SP settings for a private channel, it seems as though it has the standard SP permissions groups - Owners, members and viewers but surely that shouldn't be the case if it is a private channel?? Massive issue if I have to check every single team!