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luvsql
Aug 09, 2021Steel Contributor
How to Create Teams Templates that includes all memberships and privacy settings and tabs
We are now starting to setup each new project we have at our company as a Team. Each project is setup the same initially with the same channels, same base memberships (we allow 3 departments to acce...
Aug 09, 2021
Hi there, see this table of what's included and not (today at least) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-started-with-teams-templates#team-template-capabilities
And let me just add to be clear that private channels are currently not supported using templates.
- luvsqlAug 09, 2021Steel ContributorLiterally everything we need is not yet supported. Can these settings be done via Powershell? Can a channel's privacy setting be changed via Powershell too?
Basically it will take the same amount of time to create a new Team from scratch than it would from a template so really defeats the whole purpose of having templates.- Aug 09, 2021Sounds a bit harsh don't you think? Yes. You can use Graph for Teams or Teams PowerShell module to manage private channels (but you cannot convert a standard channel to a private channel). How about using a template for what's supported and then do a separate job for the private channels.