Files Tab in Private Channels
I created our first Private Channel earlier this week. Today I get a call from one of the members of that Private Channel and they cannot access the Files tab. They can participate in Conversations, but when they access the Files tab, they see an access denied message. I checked the membership and they were listed as a member of the channel. I promoted them to an owner and they were able to access Files. I demoted them to member, and once again they received an access denied message on the Files tab. I checked the underlying SharePoint permissions and it appears that members of a private channel are not added to any of the Groups in the site collection permissions. Can anyone else duplicate this? I have a pending support request open with MS.The issue with channel sites (private and shared channels in Teams)
Hi, I'd like to know of your opinions, experiences, practices, decisions you've made concerning private and shared channels in teams. In my company, we are progressively migrating to Teams from Webex. Users have started creating private and shared channels. My own practice and recommendation to users has been to get a new team created when a different list of users need private access to conversations or documents, instead of a private or shared channel. My reasons are as follow: Rigidity: The SharePoint channel site created cannot follow its own direction if needs arise. It is locked with the parent site. Say we want to reorganize teams and work units, and we want to join a SharePoint channel site with a another hub − we can't, at least not easily. And now the rigidity of subsites is brought back! And anyway, the conversations are also locked with the parent team! It can't be made independent. Lack of control: Control is removed once again from us, the admins − Microsoft loves to allow users to do everything they want and foster chaotic environments. We have disabled group creation and sites creation for all but a few in order to manage the information environment, try to restrict the scattering of important documents, and make things clearer for users. But with private and shared channels, end users can now create new SharePoint sites. As the documents management specialist, I can't easily see where documents end up. And when I export the list of sites to Excel, the channel sites don't appear! So I can't really see which sites take a lot of storage space. Lack of features: Let's say the management team of a department created a private channel for management topics in the department team, and after several months of active use, they now decide they'd like to manage tasks in Planner − tasks that should be private to the management team. They can't, should have created a M365 group for that! Once again, it is rigid. Troubles for the admin: I want to apply a change to all SharePoint sites − so I type a PowerShell command that will apply to all sites. But it won't apply to all sites: not the channel sites. Also, ShareGate can't seem to get the access matrix of channel sites − it returns errors for them. However, when I turn to the Web for advice with this issue, I only find appreciation for private and shared channels, and none of my concerns addressed. Apparently, they allow to avoid the multiplication of teams. However, I'm not sure how multiplying channels is better than multiplying teams. With both teams and channels, users can hide or show them, and as a team always have a channel, they can disable notifications. Maybe I should just deal with and accept the rigidity, lack of M365 features and troubles for the admin. Maybe I should approach the control of the information architecture and documents differently. What is your view on that? Did you have any issues with channel sites, and if yes, how do you deal with them? Did you discourage or prevent the creation of private and shared channels? Have you reconsidered your decision? Do you see private and shared channels as a very useful feature, and if so, why? I'm interested in all experiences on this topic and I'm thankful for all answers.Second Generation of Private Channels Scales Up to New Heights
Boasting a 20-fold increase in scalability and a cloud mailbox to hold a channel calendar, Microsoft is giving Teams private channels a significant revamp in an update that will roll out in late September 2025. The new mailbox is the new home for compliance records for private channels, which means that Microsoft 365 retention policies need a review to make sure that conversations are retained as desired. https://practical365.com/teams-private-channels-2025/
Message regarding Teams private channel being out of space
We have a Team site that is set up with the default 1 TB of storage. This site has at least one private channel. Today, the owners of that private channel received notification that their Team site was out of space. From the Admin console, I could see that it was only using 5% of the storage capacity, but when we look at the user's computer, we see a banner that notifies us that we need to free up space. We emptied the recycle bin (there were a few files in it, but no more than 15). Additionally, from the Teams client, the user (who again, is the owner of the private channel) saw a prompt to add space to the SharePoint site. After walking through both of those steps (emptying recycle bin and adding space to the site) the users were able to once again start modifying and saving the files in that channel. I know the private channels run under their own SharePoint sites. As an Admin, do we have a way to look at the storage for these channels? Is there any documentation on what this size quota is set to when a new private channel is created? I assume that your general channels will pull from the main Team site quota since the content all resides in the same SharePoint site. I was just surprised by this behavior and haven't been able to find documentation specifically on the private channel SharePoint site.
Unable to delete a private channel
Hi I seem to be unable to delete a private channel after having created a private channel for testing. The channel has no content and only one additional user, that was added after I found that it could not be deleted. The other user is also owner and can't delete it either. The channel was created 1 week ago, so it should be possible by now?
Make private channel visible for all MS Team members
Dear all, I created a MS Teams which is public and created private channel teams. But the private channel teams are only visible for me so the have not hide status. If I go to the ms teams settings and select channels, I see that the channels are only visible for me. How can I change this and please don't say I had to select this due channel creation. It is annoying that some settings cannot be changed after creation channel, eg. change private status to public/standard. Thank you, Hakan
