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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Chris Kubota shared this idea · May 09, 2018 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Anonymous commented · December 30, 2020 13:34 · Flag as inappropriate

So I have had this issue for months. It was resolved at one point maybe early in 2020, but then came back.
Users who are hidden from the GAL and do not show up in Outlook, DO show up in Teams when you start a chat or invite users.
I am aware of this
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-scoped-directory-search
and that is turned on for our organization as suggested.

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Anonymous commented · December 24, 2020 08:20 · Flag as inappropriate

Hello Microsoft support,

I would also like to request for this feature addition in MS Teams, so Admin's can create rule/policy which isolate old or common IDs from the Global address list of MS Teams.

Thanks!!

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Anonymous commented · December 17, 2020 15:19 · Flag as inappropriate

Users hidden in the Exchange GAL are hidden in Teams.

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[Deleted User] commented · December 17, 2020 15:13 · Flag as inappropriate

This needs to be added ASAP.

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Anonymous commented · December 17, 2020 05:04 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add this.

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Anonymous commented · December 17, 2020 04:24 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add this feature

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Anonymous commented · December 11, 2020 15:46 · Flag as inappropriate

WE can't hide SUGGESTED contacts. Very annoying. Please fix this.

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Marcus Binz commented · November 26, 2020 03:31 · Flag as inappropriate

The Problem is also, when User habe multiple Accounts like admins. Example:
Marcus Binz like mbinz@demo.de(normal User)
binz.admin@demo.de (No Mailbox, no Teams Licens)

When you add new Member in a Teams both Accounts shown.

Normal User are worried about this.
With regars from Germany
Marcus

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Nguyen The Thang commented · November 23, 2020 03:35 · Flag as inappropriate

Please add this feature. It's really needed. Thanks

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Annie St-Amand commented · November 19, 2020 07:14 · Flag as inappropriate

Bonjour,

Nous utilisons Teams au sein de notre équipe et souhaiterions

- imprimer certaines conversations

- pouvoir télécharger "en masse" toutes les conversations comme cela est possible pour les fichiers à la fin d'un projet.

Comment faire pour ces 2 besoins ?

Merci d'avance

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Anonymous commented · November 18, 2020 20:01 · Flag as inappropriate

Really need this. Not sure why its not standard

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JasonP commented · November 18, 2020 11:17 · Flag as inappropriate

Really need this. Not sure why its not standard

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Teamster commented · November 16, 2020 06:41 · Flag as inappropriate

Please allow us to hide users from Teams from the admin console.

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Gladson commented · November 16, 2020 04:10 · Flag as inappropriate

This is much needed as it also shows shared mailbox which is not a good idea..

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Anonymous commented · November 13, 2020 05:45 · Flag as inappropriate

very much still needed

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Daniel Landivar Acuña commented · October 26, 2020 06:19 · Flag as inappropriate

This can help you
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-scoped-directory-search

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A. Degand commented · October 22, 2020 04:15 · Flag as inappropriate

Bonjour, j'aimerais pouvoir diffuser un power point en mode présenteur pour moi (avec les commentaires en bas des slides qui s'affichent pour moi, mais pas pour les étudiants). Comment puis-je faire cela ? Merci !

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Mike Yam commented · October 20, 2020 18:23 · Flag as inappropriate

We use Azure AD Connect to sync out AD user to O365. We have AD account who just a "Domain Users" and they are not assigned with any Office 365 license. However these accounts can be find in the Teams people picker, which make confusion to users...

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Anonymous commented · October 15, 2020 22:49 · Flag as inappropriate

Highly needed hidden Team shared account feature ... thanks ...

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Anonymous commented · October 15, 2020 07:01 · Flag as inappropriate

i agree with mark down below

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