Unfortunately, there is no way to hard-delete a channel today. You have to wait for the grace period to expire.
Permanently delete a private channel
Hi,
I need to permanently delete a private channel i Teams because I have created 30 private channels and some of them are soft deleted and I cannot create more private channels now.
Is this possible?
Brgds Marika
Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Other
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Vasil Michev 119.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2022-11-11T13:17:14.467+00:00 -
Dillon Silzer 57,831 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-11-12T05:01:29.283+00:00 You may want to check your retention policies. Without some retention policy blocking the deletion it is 30 days as defined in the documentation below. The documentation notes:
Retention policies applied to Teams or associated services such as SharePoint may prohibit the deletion of teams.
Cited from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/plan-teams-lifecycle#stage-3-end
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