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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273 comments
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Ernest Vannorsdell
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This is critical for a smooth IT operation that involved terminations and even just some privacy for other users. Please add
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[Deleted User]
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Microsoft, please add this feature. Thank you.
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B.Reinartz
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Dear Microsoft
Can you please add a feature to the Teams admin center or connect the AD with Teams.
The hidden Users dont appear in Outlook so why in MS Teams? -
Anonymous
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Dear Microsoft
Can you please add a feature to the Teams admin center or connect the AD with Teams.
The hidden Users dont appear in Outlook so why in MS Teams? -
Brandon B
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Can this also include a option to hide unlicensed users from being searchable in the Teams chat?
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Klaus
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to hide users from Teams / Planner etc like hide from Addresslist should be a very mandatory option.
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Wes
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Is this seriously still not a setting in Teams / Azure / EOL
Come on MS.... pull your fingers out.
Why would i want Teams users to see all the hidden or unlicensed logins in Azure. This is also a security risk.
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Dan Nichols
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Having this either require E5 licensing and implementing information barriers, which is major overkill, or go through the incredibly arcane and complicated process of setting up global address list segmentation using address book policies to simply hide a user in Teams is absolutely ridiculous. Especially when Microsoft recognized the need for this in Exchange decades ago and gave us the hide from global address list switch. Implement a hide user from teams search switch already. And put one in for one drive as well.
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LeAnn
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This is vital for our organization as we don't want people sending teams messages to service accounts or anything that is not actually a person
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Anonymous
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This would be an important feature for anyone needing to adhere to a basic starters/movers/leavers process.
It's a hot topic for us as we are currently modernising and migrating our userbase to M365.
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Anonymous
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We are just migrating corporate wide to MS Teams from a SaaS Skype solution at our phone company. On of the first complaints we received from users was that all kinds of special administration accounts are visible. some of those accounts we use to assign roles for Azure/Teams/M365 adminstration, but are not real active users to chat with. They also dont have a M365 or Teams license assigned. To my surprise the only solution supported was scoped directory search, but that only works with Exchange Online mailboxes. We are stll using On Premise exchange with a Hybrid exchange connector for migration, but migration is not started due to internal policies. I can't believe this to be true that this can't be done by a hidefromaddreslist of other setting in Azure/Teams/M365 User settings. Please Fix this Microsoft
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Anonymous
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Unattended Mailboxes, service accounts etc all showup, unlicensed and are "shared mailboxes" within Exchange Online...whyyyy Microsoft. Rather easy fix:
If user is unlicensed for Teams, or if shared mailbox, then don't show user in Teams -
Anonymous
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Our Service Desk shows up in Teams, but is not licenced or set up for teams. makes it confusing for users trying to get in touch.
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Tamara Johnson
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It would also be nice to have a checkbox or attribute for this so contractors and other non-employees can be hidden from the Org Chart option. We like to have managers linked to these individuals, but we don't necessarily want them in the Org Chart. We also do the same for test accounts. Please add this feature ASAP.
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Anonymous
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Please implement the ability to prevent non-licensed entities from appearing in Microsoft Teams.
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Thomas Reid
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How can a massive company like Microsoft still not have a basic feature like this? Its 2021 guys we need a basic hide user function so that other users don't get confused. We still use old mailboxes for certain business functions.
Please can we get some form of resolution for this.
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Anonymous
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I have users sending chat messages in Teams to a shared mailbox. I get that Teams is searching from the entire Azure AD directory, but I'm not sure why Teams would even allow a chat message to be sent to someone that doesn't have an active Teams license.
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Harshini Kavuuri
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Hi,
Our company had Admin accounts which are already hidden from GAL in AD, still able to see those accounts in MS Teams search bar. Also, There are other admin accounts which are created in cloud but still we are able to see them in Microsoft Teams.
Currently the organization is having Office 365 E3 Subscription, so Scoped directory search option doesnt work in this case.
Please fix a work around for this issue.
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Gagan Singh
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Same as all previous comments. Its the most basic of thing, surely its not that hard to enable a option to hide a user in teams
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David Hooks
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Baffling that 3 years later we're still waiting for the most basic thing of a disabled user account being removed from Teams. I've been getting grief from our CEO and CTO because people keep messaging the wrong account and they think I'm not doing what they've asked because both accounts still keep showing up in a Team or in a search for a new chat. Why a DISABLED account shows I have absolutely no idea.