Channel only members & guests
Channel only members enable collaboration with people outside the team in a specific channel, without granting them access to the team itself. The channel member could be someone in your organization, or external to your organization (guest).
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495 comments
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Louise
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When working on a project that involves partnership working it would great to have channels within the project that are restricted to internal team members only, those from external partnerships, your consultants, and also other key stakeholders. Currently the only work around seems to be to have a Team for each group of people to give you that needed permission control but for the Project Manager this means files get saved in multiple places in Teams as well as places outside Teams. It therefore becomes confusing. Instead should a PM set up a team with purely Private Channels? However last time I looked some features, such as meeting set-up, were not available in Private Channels therefore this is not a solution if it comes with reduced functionality
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Scheibes
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desperately need this.....any updates? Like others have stated it is essential to be able to create a channel with nominated access instead of creating a whole new team every time we need to collaborate with different people.
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Simone Colucci
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2021 and still waiting, would be amazing to have this instead of spawning new teams on every project involving external consultants just to overcome this lack
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Nick Wang
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I'm also waiting for this feature. Would love to add our supplier to a channel but not the whole team.
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Anonymous
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this is an EXTREMELY important function for collaborative work environments. Please move this from the backlog to the frontlog; it will be a great way to help COVID work environments.
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Frolein
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This would be of great help!
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markus k
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Sharing channels with users not in the teams is a basic function for me. You don't want to create a whole new team for every needed colaboration with internal or external users.
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David Olson
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Please add this. Without proper security for external users at a channel level, this really holds back progress for many organizations.
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JohnGT
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There needs to be the facility to provide guest access to specific channels (private or not) and not the entire Team. Otherwise the process is insecure.
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Paulette Burnside
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I have been using Teams for about 15 months. I would love to see a feature to add individuals to a Channel in a Team who are not members of the Team itself, whether the channel is private or not.
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Nicole
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Need to give guest access to channel specifically, not just the entire team
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Petri Karjalainen
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Any update?
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Aaron
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Update?
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Vijay
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any update here?
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PGM
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This seems like it would be such a basic security function. What was the intent here? Please change this ASAP.
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Patrick Ferrington
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There is not much point for me to have a team, if every time we get involved in a project we have to create yet another team (which are very hard to deal with and find once the user has more than 10 or so) or add people to our internal process team and expose everything. I really do not like the work around of making every single chanell private just so I can add non team members to see a single channel.
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Markus Espeter
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MICROSOFT... PLEASE PRIORITIZE THIS.
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Naveen Rajendran
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MICROSOFT... PLEASE PRIORITIZE THIS.
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Anonymous
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For goodness' sake... it has 6362 votes! What's the point of this forum if useful, highly-requested features aren't ever addressed?
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Anonymous
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MICROSOFT... PLEASE PRIORITIZE THIS.