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Changing Channel from private
- You can transfer any collaborated documents from one library to another, easily enough. But AFAIK you cannot transfer text chats.
If you REALLY need to retain the chat, the admin can download all Team chats in a CSV that you could cut down to just include chat from this channel and share it as an Excel file. Not quite as usable but at least the info and discussion isn't lost.
Alternatively, screenshot the messages you need to retain, or somehow look at retaining the channel but locking it to further discussion.
Any updates here? Trying to figure out if I need to set aside some time to move everything into a new channel...
I am now reconfiguring all my teams. You cannot change channels from public to private or vise-versa as some instructions on the net elude to.
Also, when creating new channels, if you screw up and forget to make it private, you cannot delete it and then immediately create a new one with the same name. That may work after the retention period has expired.
I guess this was the only way to have private channels in Teams as it sits on top of SharePoint. I doubt Teams was actually meant to have private channels as it defeated the whole "Team" concept.
Poor planning from MS for not understanding what the community wanted and needed I am thinking.
Shepherd360I don't think this is poor planning from MS.. it's just the way software is developed these days following agile methods. As requirements emerge, so they're recognised and implemented. If we followed the whole up front planning/design thing, we'd still be waiting for Teams and when it finally came out in three years time, it would be another Windows Vista or 8 disaster.
Nope, for all of it's problems, MS are probably on the right track for product development, it's us who have to understand agile development, what that means for our users and get the feedback fed back to MS in time.
- The principle of private channel indeed defaults the whole idea about a 'Team', but for certain things this could offer a solution.
Think about a place to store information to retain for longer periods (not retention policies), like customer contracts, finalized projects etc.
This way it still keeps the team documents together but it is still a dedicated more confined space. - If a team was originally set to public and files were shared and has since been switch to private how do you make sure all of the files are no longer viewable outside the private team. Thus far I have deleted all of the files and switch the teams group to private. I do have several channels set up with in the team.
- A team has members. The general channel is available to all team members.
A private channel has a lock on it.
Anything inside the private channel is private. No one can see inside.
To allow someone to use the private channel, that person must exist in the team.
You have to add only those in the team you want in the channel. - Transfer files to a private folder or - better - a separate Group with just these members. And make sure they're deleted from original location.
"Also, when creating new channels, if you screw up and forget to make it private, you cannot delete it and then immediately create a new one with the same name. That may work after the retention period has expired."
This is a workaround method:
- rename the channel
- delete it
- create a new one with the same name (You can choose either public or private for the new channel)
