10-25-2017 12:22 AM
Hello all,
I wanted to clean a channel of a team and deleted that channel. Now I am not able to recreate a channel with the same same. It always tell me, that a channel with this name already exists. What can I do?
Regards, Kristian
10-25-2017 12:26 AM
10-25-2017 12:28 AM - edited 10-25-2017 12:29 AM
Thank you for your very quick reply. I tried that too, but it doesn't work. I will try this again.
10-25-2017 12:38 AM
It doesn't work. I have deleted the folder, the message stays the same.
10-25-2017 01:31 PM
10-25-2017 01:38 PM
10-25-2017 01:42 PM
@Pieter Veenstra wrote:
Can you check other libraries.
Are you in an educational tenant? I think the notebooks also have the folder structure in them.
I have already checked other libraries and the notebook as well. There are no folders or notebooks left with that name. I am in a standard O365 business tenant.
10-25-2017 01:44 PM
10-25-2017 01:54 PM
Here it is. But I think there aren't any useful information in the log file. The channel creation action is not listed.
10-25-2017 01:57 PM
I think, I uploaded the wrong logs. Here are the new ones.
10-25-2017 02:05 PM
2017-10-25T20:56:44.102Z Err CreateChannel: [editChannel] Failed to edit channel in "19:47f93597a50e45bbb468ae424224cdc1@thread.skype" team. 2017-10-25T20:56:44.101Z Err ChannelService: Error while updating channel : {"response":{"errorCode":"ChannelNameAlreadyExist","message":"Channel name already existed, please use other nameFailed to execute Skype backend request CreateThreadRequest. Request Url: https://emea-client-ss.msg.skype.com/v1/threads, Request Method: POST,. The server failed to respond correctly. Response Code: BadRequest, Reason: Bad Request. Response Headers: Pragma: no-cache\r\nContextId: tcid=736338011120028691,server=EAP010236252033\r\nCache-Control: no-s...
So I can see that things are failing.
Can you get he background process logs as well?
https://veenstra.me.uk/2017/08/07/microsoft-teams-how-to-troubleshoot-microsoft-teams-part-2/
10-25-2017 02:24 PM - edited 10-25-2017 02:26 PM
10-26-2017 08:30 AM
I have the same problem - is there a fix to this yet ?
Its absurd
10-26-2017 08:44 AM
It seems that uservoice has turned into a collection of bugs rather than new ideas for the product:
03-12-2018 06:11 AM
Hi,
We've just started using Teams and have run into this annoying bug of not being able to reuse deleted channel names. As a workaround if you can restore the channel from Teams | Manage Team | Channels | Deleted you can then rename the channel to something unique like "alsdkfskldfgjskl" (to avoid it being reused in the future) and delete it again. This then allows you to create a new channel with the original name which will also create notes with a matching name. (As renaming a channel doesn't rename the notes and renaming the notes breaks the link between the channel and the notes)
Hope this helps some of you!
05-14-2018 11:16 AM
Excellent workaround! Very helpful!
06-26-2018 08:24 AM
I followed these instructions, but it won't let me change the name of the deleted channel. :( It looks like the only thing I can do is restore it and strip everything out of it, just to be able to use the name. Really cumbersome and annoying.
07-03-2018 04:32 AM
07-03-2018 09:30 AM
SolutionCorrect.
See Matthew's steps.
1) Restore the deleted channel
2) Rename to random / garbage name (thus freeing the name for re-use)
3) Delete this channel (with garbage name)
4) Create the channel with the origin / desired name
07-05-2018 05:05 AM
Thanks John.
That was a misstep by me - missed the restore step!
Thank you for the guidance. Done and worked perfectly.
11-28-2019 05:47 AM