Teams to Begin Automatically Hiding Inactive Channels
From mid-July 2024, Teams will begin hiding inactive channels for users. The inactive channels can be unhidden, and users can opt out of the automatic process. The new clean up routine can be invoked whenever users want and if a mistake is made, it’s easy to unhide a channel. Given the number of channels in use, it’s likely that a few in everyone’s channel list are inactive and deserve to be hidden. https://office365itpros.com/2024/07/03/teams-inactive-channels/Team Owners Can Rename the General Channel
In what seems to be a small change, team owners can rename general channels (naturally with ‘meaningful names.’ The change is more important than it seems because it’s associated with an effort to make users think about using channels as the basis for collaboration instead of always creating a new team. Being able to rename the General channel might make the channel more useful. After all, it’s just a regular channel. https://office365itpros.com/2024/07/17/rename-general-channel/Team and Channel Creation Simplified in New Design
Team channel collaboration might be a better choice than always creating a new team to host discussions about a topic, especially if channels grow in features. Now that a single team can support a mix of up to 1,000 regular, shared, and private channels, all of which can be archived, is it a good option to continue to create new teams? The answer is probably not, especially if Microsoft continues on a path to develop channel capabilities. https://office365itpros.com/2024/05/10/team-channel-collaboration/Cleaning Out Old Messages from a Team Channel
A question asked about the best way to remove channel messages from Teams. Microsoft 365 retention policies are an option, but you'll have to wait for retention processing to complete. PowerShell helps because you can create a script to remove all messages and replies from a channel. Everything works, but processing is slow, as we discover when we plunge into the details of writing code. https://practical365.com/remove-channel-messages/
Send new Team members personal channel meeting invites automatically
Similar to this Post, but for Teams. Regarding theSend Person Invitefeature. It will send a personal invite to current Team members, but not to Team members invited after the invitation was sent. Wehave toresend or update the invite for it send and invite. It also does not appear on their calendar either. Why do we need to send updated meeting invites?Teams Private and Shared Channels Get Support for Tags
Teams Tags Support for Private and Shared Channels should arrive in targeted tenants soon. The new tag capability uses channel memberships instead of the team roster. It’s a small but useful change, as is the option to start a chat with tagged members. On the downside, Microsoft is deprecating suggested tags. But on the upside, you can include emojis in tag names. https://office365itpros.com/2024/02/22/teams-tags-channels/
Shared Calendar in Teams not working since "new" Teams
I made a shared calendar that appear in one of our channels. It used to appear like this: Since the "new" teams, the calendar tab actually disappeared. But when I re-added it via the Sharepoint button: It came back in like this: Interestingly, if I click that link "can view and edit here", it brings up another page: If I click OK on this page, without changing anything, it will bring up the calendar back like it used to be (how I want). Also, if I open the Sharepoint page thru a browser for this calendar, it displays correctly. Any help is appreciated! Thank you.Unable to add a new channel to Team
Hi, I've created a new 365 group and a Team to go with it. I was able to add owners, members, and the first 6 (of 7) private channels without issue. The 365 group and the Team are new and unused. When I try to add the 7th channel, I receive this error: We can't add the channel right now. Try again. If you continue to have problems, contact Microsoft customer support. The user I'm designating as the channel Owner is a member of the Team and has the same 365 license as the other channel owners. I've tried several times over the past week after logging out/in to the Teams admin center and trying to add the channel from an InPrivate window. Being that I've been able to add these channels for identical (except for the name) groups, what else could be preventing me from creating this channel?
