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Delete channel permanently, no ability to restore
I really truly want to delete a Teams channel. It had sensitive information and I unwittingly created the channel in the all company team. I deleted it, and went to the team in Sharepoint and del...
I have just come across the same issue where a client created a channel called Service as a shared channel instead of a private channel. Deleting the channel will take 21 days to purge, preventing them from creating a new "service" channel as a private channel. I decided to restore the deleted channel. Once the original "service" channel was restored, I renamed the channel in teams and then re-deleted the channel. I was then able to create a new channel with the same name, "Service", and make it a private channel upon creation. The old shared "service" channel can now sit in the deleted stage 2 recycling bin and be purged after 21 days.
Thank you!