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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509 comments
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Findlay Black
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This would be a great addition to how we collaborate with an internal team but with individually separate external partners on separate projects (channels). Several colleagues are also interested in this feature
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Anonymous
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This would be absolutely necessary for us in order to not have to have dozens of teams that create siloes.
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Maria Petersson
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I want this to be added asap. Need it now!
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Meg O'Brien
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I would like to see this added ASAP
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Sam
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Also wanting this to be added ASAP
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Andy Zwerin
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Microsoft Teams team, it is long past time for you to implement this necessary functionality.
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Alex Jones
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We need this functionality. I'd like to add external guests to my Team, but only a specific Channel so they won't have access to everything else in the Team. Right now we have to create a new Team with the same people, which should be what the Channels purpose is. Also private Channels lack the functionality of apps like Tasks.
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Michael Smith
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For all it's progress, Microsoft is now severely lagging on an issue as core to flexible administration of Teams as this issue is. At least update your users as to the reasons for stopping progress here. Security? Programming? What?
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Kim B
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Upvote upvote upvote!!
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Bonnie Sauer
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Why is this item on the backlog for four years? It is critical to successful adoption of Teams in an organization. Creating Team after Team after Team is an unwieldy solution. Having no update in nearly a year is disheartening.
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Dave
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This is one of the big items that keeps us from replacing Slack with Teams. People want to have the majority of their work in in as few Teams groups as possible. I know Teams is not a direct comparison to Slack, but it is the Microsoft product best suited to replace it. Users are used to having very few (often just one) Slack workspace for all of the channels they need to worry about.
Having to create a separate group and all that comes with it is way too much overhead when you just need one chat channel for a few guests. Or worse, multiple groups for one internal team each with one channel for different guests... It's a convoluted nightmare.
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Anonymous
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Any update?
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RL
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I've just have move everything over to Teams from Asana due to organizational changes and I can't believe this feature isn't available!!! Come on Microsoft - honestly, you are seriously lacking.
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Ric
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Wow, 4 years and still waiting and almost a year since the last update. It's such a simple thing to want but without it Teams just isn't useful or flexible enough.
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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!