Teams Private Channel New Member Chat History

Question

Is there a way that when I add a new member to a Private Teams channel, that they can see part or all the chat that has happened in the channels before they were added? I don't see an option when I add them, and it doesn't do it automatically.

Answer 1

Hi @Jon Mercer

Is there a way that when I add a new member to a Private Teams channel, that they can see part or all the chat that has happened in the channels before they were added?

As far as I know, when a new member is added to an existing private channel, by default they will see the full conversation history. I also tested in my Teams client and the new member can automatically see the full conversation history:

1. User2 created a private channel and left a message in the "Posts" tab.
   
2. User1 was invited into the private channel.
3. When User1 checked the private channel, the conversation history before he was added can be seen automatically.
   

For the case described in your post, does it occur to all new members added to the private channel? Has the new member checked in Teams web client(https://teams.microsoft.com) to see if the previous conversation history can be seen?

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Answer 2

It happened with the two people that I added to the same channel, and when I asked later, they said it actually didn't matter, so not to worry about it, they had just needed a sharepoint file. I am not going to be able to test the web access unfortunately, since they are working on a large project. Hopefully someone else with this issue might see this and try that, and post what happened.