Teams Private Channels admin center add users

[Ethan Stern]

Hey everyone!  We had something go wrong with one of our Teams in our tenant...the owners were removed then had to be re-added.  However, I can not add the owner back to the private channels within the Teams admin site- it gives me an error message even though there is an option to add members.  I am using a GA account and also tried making myself an owner of the team as well.  Does anyone have a similar experience or a workaround?  Thanks so much!  I would like to grant access back to these private channels.

[#2]

Hi @Ethan Stern ,

Did adding yourself as an owner also give the error message - what was the message if there was one. 

[#3]

@Andrew Hodges hey there, it just says "we can't add the user" screen shot attached.  Is there anything else we can do to add people back to this private channel?

[#4]

Hi @Ethan Stern ,

You could try using powerShell, not used this myself yet - https://office365itpros.com/2019/11/19/teams-updates-powershell-module-private-channels/ 

[#5]

@Andrew Hodges Thanks!  It turns out it just took a while to propagate, looks like when I deleted and re-added the owner that also assigned the owner back to the private team- although it did not show up in the admin center it did show up for the owner eventually on their teams app.

[#6]

Hi @Ethan Stern ,

Great, I have also seem some weird propagation issues a couple of weeks ago, taking over night to update me as a Team Owner from  a member. Very strange.