Tracking and Re-Adding Disabled Users Teams Private Channel Memberships

Question

There are many threads that exist that discuss that this is an issue, but I have not found anyone discuss how they handle it.

So, I'm curious how others have managed tracking the private channels disabled users are removed from, then re-adding re-enabled users to those channels?

The action to remove a user from a Team (memberremoved) is tracked in Purview. Therefore, I'm wondering if one could somehow search for any of those actions when an account is enabled and automatically add them back. Or at least provide the list to manually review if membership still applies.

But the bigger question, to me is, why users aren't added back to private channels automatically?

Answer 1

Hi @MarcusC83

Do you mean:

1. once a user is disabled, he would be removed from all private channels
2. if his account is re-enabled, he would not be added back to the private channels automatically
3. while the membership removal can be tracked in unified audit log

If this is the case, it is by design thus is the expected behavior.
The private channel owners may need to manually add the user back to the private channels.

Please refer to this link: You don't see team members after your account is re-enabled

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