Shared channels within an organization
Shared channels within an organization will allow people in different teams to collaborate on a shared project or v-team in the context of their own teams. A channel can be shared across teams in the same organization.

89 comments
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Ladislav Gallay commented
+1
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Anonymous commented
This would be a gamechanger as to how you organise Teams. Could be so much more efficient
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Jeff commented
It should be that a team (like a project) can create public channels that anyone can browse/contribute to without having to join the team.
Then, there should be a way to browse all the public channels in an organization, and add then subscribe to them either from a team, or an individual.
One problem is the current definition of a 'private' team as being 1) hidden, and 2) inaccessible to joining - this should be renamed 'secret'. To have a public channel, a team must be 1) not hidden, and 2) inaccessible i.e. private.
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Anonymous commented
YESSSSSS! Much needed, please.
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Chris Russell commented
Yes... looking at teams as slack replacement and this is really important.
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Anonymous commented
Any update on eta ?
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Maxim Ivanov commented
Upvote! Much needed to avoid virtual teams sprawl. Today either everyone needs to be in one team or you have the same topic in multiple teams and this is unusable
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Michael commented
Great feature that needs to be implemented to compete with the likes of slack
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Anonymous commented
Indeed an essential function to avoid an overflow of different teams and to be able to share ideas between teams in an efficient way.
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Anonymous commented
essential for open and collaborative working. i.e. essential for working
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Anonymous commented
Yes with most of us working from home this is needed now more than ever.
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Anonymous commented
Is there any update about the status of this feature?
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Anonymous commented
Yes please.. We need this.
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Nick Vuono commented
Need this ASAP to improve cross-functional communication within our teams. Without this, instead of having manageable individual teams we wind up with giant monolithic teams that include absolutely everyone
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Anonymous commented
This would make Teams applicable to my project
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Melissa Truscott commented
I'm launching teams in our organisation and this has been my first stumbling block. I'm so surprised that this functionality is not available. I can see that people have been crying out for this since 2018. Why the delay??
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Anonymous commented
Hi,
You can use "Cross-post a channel conversation in Teams" as explained in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/cross-post-a-channel-conversation-in-teams-9c1252a3-67ef-498e-a7c1-dd7147b3d295?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
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Tim Storer commented
This is badly needed. Right now it is all or nothing - they get access to the whole Team or nothing at all. Private channels is a good start. Shared channels would add even more flexibility and continue progress in the right direction. Creating a new Team for every situation is not reasonable.
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Tom Tinsley commented
Holy Cow, inconceivable that it cannot do this
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Howard Saffer commented
Amazed that this is not yet possible - I don't want to share the whole group area - just one channel. I suppose I might have to create a new group just to host a particular channel - so it can be shared more widely, without giving access to my other group channels.