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Announcement joining/leaving a team
I've been using Teams for a while, but now we're getting the whole company on Teams. The messages whenever a person joins or leaves a team is super distracting. Couldn't figure out how to disable these notifications.
You cannot disable these notifications by design. They are there for data governance and security.
If this is a feature you would like to see added, there have been a few submissions on UserVoice, but none have really gotten any traction.
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35726785-remove-notification-when-you-leave-a-team
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31589791-notifications-when-a-member-leaves-a-team
As a workaround, simply don't make the General channel the main focus for conversations. In my org we limit the general channel for Team-wide updated and notifications.
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adam11 This is especially annoying when you are trying to create a clean, company / Org wide Channel when the whole company is automatically added to it. If you want to just use the Channels for announcements and one-way communications, the clean look of the channel is always messed up when people are added or formally join the Team. Toggling this on and off for Org-wide challens would be a logical change they should make.
4BobRandall adam11 Brad Groux Hi, all - there was a recent tweet about this and changes are coming soon. https://twitter.com/lauriepottmeyer/status/1270133153080897537?s=19
You cannot disable these notifications by design. They are there for data governance and security.
If this is a feature you would like to see added, there have been a few submissions on UserVoice, but none have really gotten any traction.
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35726785-remove-notification-when-you-leave-a-team
- https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31589791-notifications-when-a-member-leaves-a-team
As a workaround, simply don't make the General channel the main focus for conversations. In my org we limit the general channel for Team-wide updated and notifications.
Thanks for your response, Brad Groux.
That makes sense why it exists, and enabled out of the box.
Hopefully, in the future, they can make it a togglable feature.
Also: I found a UserVoice that got a bit more traction: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/35515990-users-added-to-team-line-removed
Feel free to vote for it! =P
