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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.

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  • Elizabeth Stone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The Special Services department in my school district would like to use it, but because of student privacy each student would need their own team or there needs to be a way to hide names of other students in class.

  • Chris F commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with all concerns in this thread and will add my own. We have a user that left the company for a few months and returned. Now people are inviting the wrong Teams account to chats and getting confused why he doesn't comment. He's missing content and Teams is to blame. This needs to be higher priority.

  • Carl Sarazin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    so if someone in your tenant doesn't have a license for Teams, he should not show up I think, and to have the extra functionality to hide an account voluntarily would be an asset

  • Bad Bunny commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need this feature implemented especially when you have admin users that you dont want them to show up in Teams users search.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really do not understand how an unlicensed user would ever appear in the list of Teams users. Shouldn't it be a given that no license = not using Teams? Even if I do assign a license to a tenant account, to perform administration, I should still be able to hide that user.

  • Mark T commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Users getting confused by this. guest accounts I understand (those are of course not licensed), I have EOL service mailbox accounts that i can hide from outlook address book, but they appear in the teams user list.

  • B Davis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Good afternoon! We really need this suggestion looked at and answered by the Microsoft Teams product team. User accounts that are not licensed for Teams, should not show up when Teams users search for them. Period.

    If a user does not have a mailbox in Exchange, they don't show up in the Global Address List. Same should apply for Teams. Additionally adding the ability to hide a user from the Teams Address List would also be a great help.

    Looking forward to a response from the product team on this request as I have already spent a good deal of time on the phone with Teams Support

  • Solvirafn commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can you please put an option in Teams Admin portal or 365 Admin Center. It's annoying to see old user pop up on Teams

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