How to manage size of a private channel sharepoint site

Question

We have created a private channel within MS Teams.

But how can you manage the underlying SharePoint site?

In the SharePoint admin portal you only see the parent Team site, but the underlying private channel SharePoint site cannot be found

Answer 1

Thanks to a colleague, we found a way to adjust the SharePoint site size, that belongs to a private channel

first we connected to our environment

Connect-SPOService -Url https://<>-admin.sharepoint.com

then we identified our private channels

Get-SPOSite -limit All -Template "TEAMCHANNEL#0"

with the command below you can adjust the settings

Set-SPOSite -Identity urlsite -StorageQuota 1024 -StorageQuotaWarningLevel 1000

Answer 2

Hi @a-r-faber,

You can't see a private channel SharePoint site by using the SharePoint Admin portal.

First you need to give permissions to the private channel. Then you can access your private channel site.

I attached the images below that tell more.

Answer 3

Note that you cannot 'manage' the SharePoint site as you normally would. These are simple shells, intended for document storage only. Site membership is synchronized with the Private Channel membership in Microsoft Teams and you cannot independently manipulate the membership on the SharePoint site, that is, if you adjust the SharePoint site membership, the Teams Private Channel membership will overwrite your changes.

Answer 4

Hi a-r-faber,

You can access the SharePoint site of private channel by the following steps:

Each private channel has its own SharePoint site collection. The separate site collection is to ensure access to private channel files is restricted to only members of the private channel compared to the team site where team owners have access to all the assets within the site collection.

Answer 5

Hi a-r-faber,

The site collection for private channel is invisible by design.

You can modify the size of private channel by SharePoint Online Management Shell with “Set-SPOSite”.

For more details about how to get started using PowerShell to manage SharePoint Online, please refer to this article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/sharepoint/sharepoint-online/connect-sharepoint-online?view=sharepoint-ps.