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How to enable a Microsoft Teams bot to work in private channels?
We have developed a bot for Microsoft Teams that can send messages to: Team members' personal chats Public channels within the team However, when we attempt to install the bot in a private channel, we encounter the following error: "App isn't supported in the private channel. Select another channel." We would like to enable our bot to: Be installed in private channels. Send messages in the private channel where it is installed. Send messages to team members who are part of that private channel. Is there a way to configure the bot or update its app manifest to support private channels? If so, what steps are required? Are there any limitations or additional permissions needed to achieve this?
VipassanaMahale
Oct 17, 2025 Place Teams Developer
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Distribution List or Security Group question
I can add a Distribution List or Security Group in Teams Channel under "Manage Team" but I can't see or add either if it is a Shared or Private channel under "Share Channel". How so? We really don't want to share the either channel by adding 1000 users. Thank you for your time.
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normberky
Mar 14, 2024 Place Microsoft Teams
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List of all private channels that I own
Hi, is there a way for a 'normal business user' without developer access to export a list of all the private channels that whe/she owns? I could identify a list with all the Teams were I was the other but the private channels that belong to those individual teams do not show. How can I export a detail list with all Team and private channels within those Teams? Thanks in advance
Ana_Garcia_2351
Feb 07, 2023 Place Microsoft Teams
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Cannot Rename a Private Channel that has been Restored
Just finding out if this is a bug. Scenario: 1. User deleted a Private Channel 2. User Restored the Private Channel 3. When User tries to rename the restored Private Channel they don't get the option to Edit Channel. See attached screenshot
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SopeStar
Nov 18, 2021 Place Microsoft Teams
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Private channel creation in a multi geo tenant
Consider this: we create an O365 group via the Graph API (application permissions) where the geo location of the user creating the group is taken into account (e.g. Europe is the central location, North America is the satellite location). See the docs on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/microsoft-365-multi-geo?view=o365-worldwide. We then make a MS Team out of this O365 Group. When we create a private channel using the Graph API (application permissions), a new SharePoint site collection (SC) is created. Will this new SC be created in the same location as the SC of the Team the private channel was created in ? I'm assuming it is as it makes the most sense. I'm also hoping it is as it is a customer requirement, but hard to verify for me personally. Is there someone who can share their knowledge on this ?
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pieterheemeryck
May 25, 2021 Place Teams Developer
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Forcing private channels on Teams
Hello, Is there any way to force that all channels created within a Team are private? Thanks in advance,
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LuisO
Mar 23, 2021 Place Microsoft Teams
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Random number on SPO site attached to private channel
Hello, Background: I created a private channel called 'Finance' back in October 2020 and deleted it in Oct itself. I think I excluded the site '/sites/lg-finance' (lg is the Team name) in retention policy and deleted it as well. We never deleted the team if that helps to know. We were in the process of setting up a new architecture and was testing with different ways of setting up Teams and SP and Doc Lib. So, many teams and private channels were created and deleted, but I couldn't delete the private channel's sites even after excluding it in retention policy for some reason, Error: included in ediscovery hold or retention policy'. this started to happen by 1st week of Nov and we had way too many orphaned sites. But I was able to delete the site thats gets created with the team. Maybe it is working as per design. After 2 months with MS support, they said they will disable orphaned hold on the account and now I'm able to delete the orphaned site. Problem: The 'Finance' private channel we deleted back in oct, we need it back, so I recreated the channel but the site is getting a random number for every try. Never see it before as it was always in increments (I think). but '/sites/lg-finance' doesnt exist for the last 3 months and i believe it should be available already but unable to get the channel to create a site without random number at the end like '/sites/lg-finance79' '/sites/lg-finance97' etc I ran a powershell script to pull out all the site including modern team and group site and lg-finance doesnt exist. any suggestions and help?
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rjack
Jan 19, 2021 Place Microsoft Teams
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Teams Free private channels - add members issue
Hi community, we are experiencing an issue with Teams Free (tenant created a few days ago). We created a Private Channel and we cannot add any members (sometimes after adding, the procedure ends but users is not added). New members (added specifying email address) receive an email confirmation with "Join" button: after clicking URL, Teams will starts but Private Channel is still not displayed. Just tried to create and re-create other Private Channels --> same results. What can we do to solve the problem? Please let us know. Thanks a lot for your cooperation, Stefano China [Tecnostrutture]
Stefano_China
Apr 20, 2020 Place Microsoft Teams
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