Hide a user from Microsoft Teams
It would be very beneficial to be able to hide a user from showing as a Microsoft Teams user. Right now it is super confusing for users when old staff members whose mailboxes are still being used show in Microsoft Teams. There is currently no option to hide these users from showing as contacts in chats.
Chris Kubota
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42 comments
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Bob
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Please add this feature. If you hide the address in Exchange, Teams should pull that config for itself as well. Thank you.
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Josh Blunden
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I need this feature
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Leandro
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We need this feature
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Anonymous
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This is very much required!
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Alex Bleicker
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I'm also struggling with this, we have some users with multiple accounts due to different geographical locations where aliases to their mailbox is not feasible due to the way the data/email are structured and we end up with several results for the same person on teams. We have to write the different email addresses on the display name to make easier to identify, but that is an ugly work around. Please add an option to hide.
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Anonymous
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We do not license all users for Teams. It would be good to limit messaging to licensed users.
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Ricardo
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We need this feature
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TPG-Barry
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I found not giving admin users a license is the first step
The second is following https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-scoped-directory-search
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Parimal Bulsara
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Agreed, we have some users who have multiple mailboxes, but dont want their alternate mailboxes being show
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Kiran Kumar Anchuri
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This is much needed feature in the MS Teams.
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Kai
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It's a must have feature.
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Varun Kumar
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We desperate need this feature!
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Sammy Voss
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We are also seeing this issue in our Teams environment causing a user to be improperly tagged in threads and channels. Please implement this with expediency, since it is necessary for users to be able to communicate seamlessly with this product.
username@organization.com
name@anotherDomain.com (only on Exchange license-should not be in Teams)We were told that the feature to hide users that are listed in the Global Address List (GAL) cannot be done for Teams yet and will be implemented soon. Only Skype users can be hidden right now.
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Morena
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Microsoft Please can you implement hiding unwanted users on Teams
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Chris Monroe
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I really need this. We currently leave a users email functional for about 2 months with automatic replies so customers will know who to contact on their accounts.
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MikaelJones
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Really need this. We invite external users as Azure AD Guests (for other services than Teams) and whenever you start a new chat you see the user twice, both as (Guest) and (External) and it’s very confusing for the user to choose the correct, which should be the external one.
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Donald Strand
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We have two tennants and sometimes we duplicate names for addresses so you might have abc@abc.com and abc@efg.com. When you pull up New Conversation you get the persons name "abc" twice with no trailin domain so it's SUPER confusing. This is more of a bug report than a feature suggestion but I'll vote for it anyway. If I hide someone from the GAL they shouldn't show up in teams.
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Jeff Ellman
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My admin ID gets chats from users. Very frustrating.
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Richard Guwoe
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This is a much needed feature. At the very least, showing only users with active license.
When assigning license to users, theres the option to turn off specific apps. Teams is already an option but turning it off does just seems to remove the user access.
In addition to turning off the user access, removing them from Teams as a user or searchable user would be beneficial.
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Shadh Zaman
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This is ridiculous. GAL can hide user accounts - so why would someone implement an ability to look up even the odd service accounts from a chat/collab software?
At least make it so that only people with an active office account show up.