Teams channel - conversion from public to private

DE-LIGNIERES Valerie 76

Hi,

I would like to convert a channel teams "public" to a "private" channel, after its creation.

It is possible ?

I try to search an answer, and the only feature I've found is the obligation to create the channel in the private option from the beginning.

If the channel is already created in "public" what is the way to move back to private ?

Screen shot below = impossible to clic on the "type" to change it from public to private :-(
Thanks a lot for your answer.

Many people from my Company (Sodexo) would be very happy to know the answer

KTB 0 Reputation points

2023-02-15T22:34:12.51+00:00

In addition to the problem presented with not being able to switch from public to private or vice-versa; there is another problem I discovered while testing, that will affect users that ususally schedule Team Channel Meetings. In that, you are not able to schedule a meeting for a private channel, the only option available is to click meet now in real time. Therefore, the only way to use the option to schedule a future date meeting only with the users permitted to view that specific teams channel, is if the channel is set to public. And therefore if the channel is set to public, even users not invited to the meeting that are a part of the Team that the channel is under, can join the meeting at anytime or see the information in that meeting; even though they were not invited. *So it defeats the purpose of creating a private channel and being able to plan ahead and set a future date teams meeting that you can later track and automatically make available to that specific private channel. So basically you will lose a very useful feature if you go private, though you gain the security aspect, but based on current limitations, you cannot have both.
Mark Stempinski 0 Reputation points

2023-04-04T17:07:16.42+00:00

I tried to find a solution for that, but i got here with no solution. It would be nice to have a solution for it.
Holger Bunkradt 16 Reputation points

2023-04-17T09:58:52.4633333+00:00

Still not possible to convert from private to public and vice versa.

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Joyner, Tim A 136 Reputation points

2022-11-16T17:29:06.18+00:00

@JimmyYang-MSFT What reason is there behind not being able to toggle from public to private and vice versa? Is this a feature being discussed in the background to turn on or develop?

Our organization could reallllly use this ability. We are pouring more and more into Teams everyday and everyday we're finding little things that eventually going to be big problems (finding limitations etc).

Thanks
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Brandon 15 Reputation points

2023-02-03T23:42:21.56+00:00

Agreed that we need to be able to convert public channels to private and vice versa. Slack does this and it's an often-needed feature. Huge hassle to delete a channel and start all over. The lack of this feature is literally costing me hours today.
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KR 10 Reputation points

2023-03-28T08:27:13.3066667+00:00

I'm giving my contribution to this wish/problem.

More and more employees are using Teams and because of this it is necessary to hide some topics/channels.
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Ron Jameson 10 Reputation points

2023-04-07T17:39:44.3166667+00:00

Been wanting this teams/channel management feature for years, while I have not tested - AGAT makes a tool to manage teams and do just this. Why MS does not is beyond me. I am inquiring from AGAT on costs - as we have clients that want a simple archive channel feature to move it out into an Archive teams. Lots of teams sprawl issues from users.
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Jesus Nubiola 5 Reputation points

2023-10-04T17:29:29.0166667+00:00

This is so frustating.

This should be top priority and it looks like that MS couldn´t care less.
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