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Permanently delete a private channel

Marika Särnblom 296 Reputation points
2022-11-11T12:26:05.817+00:00

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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  1. Vasil Michev 119.8K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-11-11T13:17:14.467+00:00

    Unfortunately, there is no way to hard-delete a channel today. You have to wait for the grace period to expire.

  2. Dillon Silzer 57,831 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2022-11-12T05:01:29.283+00:00

    Hi @Marika Särnblom

    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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