hard delete deleted channels
is there any way of "hard" deleting, deleted channels?
i've did some testing regarding the 200 channel limit, now i can't create new channels, as still the limit is reached because the test channels are still under deleted channels….
Stephan Lang
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Patrick
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Wow yes omg team have so many of these little bugs and limitation that make no sense.
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Anonymous
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I created a channel for public, and I want to switch it to private. I know I have to delete and recreate the channel (move contents to a temp space), but having to wait 30 days for this seems burdensome. First, I cannot just switch to private channel so I have to copy to a temp area, and now I have to wait 30 days. This should be much easier.
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Mary
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Please add this feature I have things out there that have nothing to do with me and I cannot get rid of them.
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Jan Payne
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We have 19 active private channels, 11 deleted private channels most of which have exceeded 30 days. Yet, we still have them sitting there taking up valuable space, what can be done to permanently delete these? This is an emergent need!
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Erin Patrick
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Our organization would need this feature for sure!
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Heindre Rademan
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Hurry up MS and please add this function as a matter of urgency. Thank you
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Andrea
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I would really like this feature - the ability to manually delete forever a channel, so that I can reuse that channel immediately.
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Anonymous
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i want delete channels not used
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Anonymous
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Yes we need this feature ASAP
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Jim Scott
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How about allowing an administrator the ability to permanently delete the conflicting channel that is sitting in deleted queue instead of having to wait for 30 days? This would fix all sorts of additional issues like cannot have more than 30 private channels which includes those that have been deleted in the last 30 days. Or cannot exceed 200 standard channels which again includes those that have been deleted in the last 30 days.
I get the benefit of not really deleting a channel and sending it to a deleted queue that can be undone, however give someone the ability to permanently delete the channel from the deleted queue without having to wait 30 days and you solve this issue.
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Jim Scott
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Same issue with private channels. You cannot have more than 30 private channels and even if you delete the private channel it does not free up a private channel. You have to re-purpose an existing channel that has been deleted!
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[Deleted User]
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workaround, restore the deleted channel. edit it, rename it, delete it again, then you can create a new channel with the old ones name
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Anonymous
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hi - this is ridiculous - as there is a limit to the number of private channels I wanted to merge some of them - I am not able to rename sharepoint folder to match the updated teams name. I am not able to delete the channel and it still counts towards my limit) - really basic design flaws that make this horrible to use
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Brian
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amazing there is no way to instantly delete them
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Kevin Lucia
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This crumbled our plans today since we could not remove deleted channels. This is the first thing I could not deleted from a Power shell command that I've tried. Seems odd a global admin can't even remove deleted things.
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John Wagenman
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We hit this snag today and without a hard delete the only option was to create another team so they could continue making channels.
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Anonymous
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My company is rolling out office 365 and have chosen to adopt Teams. We have discussed the permanent deletion of channels in teams with several Microsoft reps. They have all advised us to set a retention policy through our admin portal. This isn’t the option we are looking for. It says we can set retention policies for Teams Chat Messages or Channel Messages. I’m looking to permanently delete a deleted channel within a team.
We’ve deleted some channels and moved them to a secondary team due to the limit of 200 channels, however the deleted channels are still counting against our limit and we are unable to continue creating new channels for collaboration at this time.
Now our staff are unable to proceed with their work! If I can’t find a solution to this issue immediately I’m going to have users abandoning this software very quickly!
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David Ho
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Agree it suggest that maybe we need to look at alternatives team like Slack if there too many limitations
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Anonymous
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No reason why they couldn’t be deleted, just ridiculous they can’t
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Sean Ellis
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As I've said elsewhere, why is there a limit at all? This kind of thing only arises because of the existence of arbitrary limits in the app.