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
shared this idea
113 comments
-
Alpa Patel
commented
Our organization have multiple email and shared mailboxes. It's difficult for user to understand which one to pick and many time message is send but person is not replying for days because they are not login to that particular account. I wish there was a way to show one account and hide other one. Hope microsoft comes up with a fix sooner.
-
Adam Solomon
commented
Our help system leverages a shared mailbox in Exchange. It cannot be hidden from the GAL. So it appears in Teams even though it is not Teams enabled. I can't imagine this is an unusual scenario. It gets better: users see the account name, they know that's where they go for help, so they try IM'ing it.
-
Kenny Akinremi
commented
Same issue especially as a lot of our users require multiple accounts and there's no way to actually pinpoint the user's primary account beyond the user's full name, username/alias and job title.
As an IT personnel, I can work with this but this is not user friendly from the POV of a normal user. -
Anonymous
commented
Yes please!! How is this even an issue lol. Stuff like this should be so easy to do, yet it is not!
Even with regular global address list there are hoops to go through. Cmon now... lets make it happen! -
Ozan ARABACI
commented
+1 here
-
Senah Ocloo-Sewor
commented
1000% This has created an issue for us because some users have mailboxes no one else is supposed to be aware of. So much for that. Forced transparency
-
Anonymous
commented
Yep. Must be easy to do .. no ?
-
Anonymous
commented
100%
-
Justin Hayes
commented
+1
-
Anonymous
commented
+++++1 here
-
Ben
commented
Similar frustration by the fact that users are marked as hidden in the global directory yet can still appear in Teams? How does that make sense?
-
Prath
commented
I have a user who is disabled in my local AD and blocked through O365. Same Same.
His teams user account is no longer visible in teams admin console.
He still appears in our teams chat and groups as available. You can even send a message to him and it will say message sent, not failed. Is this a bug, am I not waiting long enough - it's been 8 hours or is this what this thread is actually trying to have rectified. -
Mac Wilson
commented
+1 need this one. Shared mailboxes showing up.
-
Anonymous
commented
My organization has three different email domains to reflect business units. Substantial number of users require identities in all or two domains. While the email profiles are easy to manage, the Teams search results are confusing. I have reports from users who 1) can't differentiate between multiple profiles to send messages to 2) are reporting that they miss messages because the messages are sent to the wrong profile. I don' t know the effort involved in creating a hide feature, but the story exists. Please put this on your roadmap.
-
Anonymous
commented
we need an urgent fix from Microsoft on this
-
Ahmed Thabit
commented
Please hide disabled accounts from showing in MS Teams .. Former employees still showing in there and it is really confusing
-
Jo
commented
Please can a fix for this be introduced. It's causing my clients serious issues with old users and shared mailboxes showing up in Teams.
-
Peter
commented
Extremely urgent. Can't use Teams with clients due to this.
-
JZ
commented
+1 We need this function!
-
Anonymous
commented
Again, why Teams doesn't obey GAL privacy I don't know.