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Owners are getting 403 when trying to delete bot posts
MicrosoftPipedriveDeveloper​ - The 403 "AclCheckFailed-Delete Message" error you're seeing when trying to delete bot messages in Microsoft Teams is a known limitation. Even if the user is a team owner and has the right policies in place, they still can't delete messages sent by bots or apps—unless they are the original sender (the bot itself) or have special admin privileges.
Unfortunately, there's nothing we can change on the bot's side to allow others to delete its messages. This restriction is controlled by Microsoft Teams and the Graph API, and bots can't override it.
Thanks,
Nivedipa
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This seems crazy that you are just saying there is no solution to this! Functionality to at least delete a bot's messages manually within the channel as the administrator should be a minimum, but further to this the ability to delete messages via Power Automate too would clearly be highly valuable. Thanks
- Nivedipa-MSFT
@jmillsjmills - Thank you for your suggestion!
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Thank you again for your valuable suggestion!
