Don't generate random names for channel email address
After you create a new Channel, when you choose "Get Email Address" it generates an email that is just random characters. It would be nice if it generated an email address based on the Channel name like it does for a new Team. Other suggestions have asked for the company name to be in the email address, or for the IT Admin to have more control of the name, such as the ability to customize the name.
Example Channel named Channel1
Current: af7b9300.<redacted>@amer.teams.ms
Ideal: Channel1@amer.teams.ms
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Craig
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This would be a really worthwhile feature. Submitted my vote now!
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Victor
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There exists a tool that can solve the problem.
See https://ivasoft.com/channeladdresses.shtml -
Frank King
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The amer.teams.ms domain isn't ours, certain DLP rules flag these as external messages and block them.
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Anonymous
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That would be great!
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Chuck Cordeiro
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Completely agree. We really need a feature like this - the amer.teams.ms domain isn't ours, certain DLP rules flag these as external messages, which should not be the case.
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Surono
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I agree in the same organization domain (Azure hybrid-cloud AD auth), the simple alias is enough to put Teams channel address as <channel-name>-<Teams-name>@<organization-domain>.
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Viciva
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Google for tool named ChannelAddresses, that allows an Office 365 admin to create as many mail contacts as many mail-enabled channels exist in organization.
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Victor
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In fact you can set up a mail contact with the external address in Exchange Admin Center and then add a secondary email address to the contact.
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Svetlana Lilko
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please add an email alias to a channel
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Mike Santos
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It would also be great if you add an email alias to a channel.
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Gareth Dembo
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It would also be great if you add an email alias to a channel.
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Anonymous
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To add, the domain for this email address should be the organizations default email domain. Example: Channel1@contoso.com
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Walter
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There is another issue with this setup and eDiscovery. When searching for emails sent to a channel through the Security and Compliance module the to email changes to TEAM@default-tenant-domain.com, and then the actual subject points to the channel in question, except it cannot be decoded (ie TEAM/ParentMessageId/EmailSubject). If the ParentMessageId would be the name of the channel that would allow one to figure out which channel this was sent to.
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...just BE...
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As Teams adoption increases, the more advanced users are discovering the value in routing alerting and other auto-generated emails to their different channels for the Support teams.
Currently, there's only an on-off switch and no ability to force the email from external senders through third party spam services like ProofPoint.
The option to allow admins to force all channel email addresses to adopt the custom domain name rather than the current one (contoso.com vs contoso.onmicrosoft.com) will increase the ability to secure the environments and avoid adoption decrease due to InfoSec forcing the capability to be completely turned off
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Anonymous
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Adding the Channel Email to an Outlook Email is helpful but including the Team name and full Channel Name makes the email address extremely long to the point I will not use it for when sending emails externally.
It would be helpful to be able to customize the Email Name or Shorten it.
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Anonymous
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Yes...we should be able to create aliases for these addresses like we can with regular old exchange online. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-another-email-alias-for-a-user-0b0bd900-68b1-4bf5-808b-5d240a7739f4
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Andreas
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This should be optional since it could be a security concern if anyone can guess the email. Also there is a middle ground here where there is an unguessable part but channel and team is added to the email as well.
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Jeff Parker
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Also, instead of the amer.teams.ms (and its many variations) domain could the email address please use the tenant domain?
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David McKnight
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I'd also like to see us use some form of the group and tenant email address rather than the awkward "abc4567d@amer.teams.ms" -- it should be <channel>.<group>@<tenantEmail>.com.
Since the group email is created at the time the group is created, it's a waste not to leverage it. Not to mention an Enterprise is going to prefer that email appear to come through the tenant rather than a third party service.
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Tim
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Can we change the way that the Team Channel email address gets created, we would like to see the Team name followed by the channel.
We would like to see this information appear in the address book in this order.