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).
Pieter Veenstra
shared this idea
Channel only member guests remains on the backlog.
357 comments
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jyoti
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soooo badly needed for client collaboration - otherwise I need a new team for each client (of which we have hundreds.)
Please also secure the general channel in a team so that guests either can or cannot see it. -
Brock
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Pretty please!
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Anonymous
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This would be a game changer!
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Spencer Poole
commented
You can do this in SLACK come on MS stop adding features like virtual stadium seating and work on real beneficial tools. This is a SharePoint issue and it needs to be addressed, stop competing with Zoom and start looking at Slack
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Darren Zappa
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I am trying to add a guest to a particular channel rather than the Team and ended up here only to find out it is not possible- Come on Microsoft
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Anonymous
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This is critical to bringing in outside users on a project or sub project when you want them to have specific access and not access to your whole team's space.
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Anonymous
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This is essential for Microsoft Teams and one of the reasons we use competitors.
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Anonymous
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Where is this on the roadmap?
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Anonymous
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This is the single most important change to teams which will make the experience better than anything out there for us. Please make this happen.
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Anonymous
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This is an absolute MUST HAVE!! Wanting to desperately implement Teams and so many benefits but not being able to add an external resource to only a specific channel within a team is a real deal breaker.
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John
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Would love to see this option as we often have several different businesses rolling up at a higher level. If we can keep the information in one Team, but direct access by Channel we can maintain required security access controls, but still have overall business continuity for those with complete access.
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Katherine
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This is exteemly important when a team may be a "safe space" ie: many organizations have a diveristy and inclusiviness teams. There will be many channels of discussions or projects. It would be invaluable that when a channel should have collaboration with an outside member (be it a deparmental advisor or lead on another team) that they can be part of that channel but ONLY that channel.
For example we we have a team for Disability issues and want to open part of it up to the department. But for the people greately affected we want to have private channels for them to bring up more personal issues and sharing of ideas. -
Anonymous
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I get requests every day from our users that this is a key feature.
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Domingo
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Standard and Private channel
Hello, there is no way in MS TEAMS to add a person to the team to interact only with a specific channel without this user seeing the other pre-existing channels. Please MICROSOFT check the possibility of giving him/her access only to a specific team channel or an alternative way to handle this situation.
I have many channels created and this is a pain ********** -
Shawn Fagan
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Can't fully deploy teams without this! My users are wanting to move to Slack so they can better work with external users
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Christine
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This is needed now !! cannot understand why this is not a feature, really limits working with the application.
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Doug Donaghue
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Not being able to add a guest to a channel makes the guest access completely pointless. I do not want to give top level access to a guest! That makes no sense at all.
WE NEED THIS FEATURE IMMEDIATELY!!!
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Monica C
commented
huge limitation for us right now - cross functional teams keep needing to create more "Teams" for each project which really should be just "channels" if member & guest access can be figured out to be specific to channels. Any update on this feature request?
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Anonymous
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Slack allows guests to specific channels
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Leo Martinez
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This is disappointing. This doesn't help if you have numerous channels for different purposes, and all team members will get the same messages anyways.
It seems that every time I look for major requirement I need, MS team has that limitation. Mostly on the guest accounts and channel assignment.