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.

237 comments
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Anonymous commented
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
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Anonymous commented
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
Users hidden in the Exchange GAL are hidden in Teams.
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[Deleted User] commented
This needs to be added ASAP.
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Anonymous commented
Please add this.
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Anonymous commented
Please add this feature
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Anonymous commented
WE can't hide SUGGESTED contacts. Very annoying. Please fix this.
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Marcus Binz commented
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
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Nguyen The Thang commented
Please add this feature. It's really needed. Thanks
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Annie St-Amand commented
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
Really need this. Not sure why its not standard
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JasonP commented
Really need this. Not sure why its not standard
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Teamster commented
Please allow us to hide users from Teams from the admin console.
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Gladson commented
This is much needed as it also shows shared mailbox which is not a good idea..
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Anonymous commented
very much still needed
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Daniel Landivar Acuña commented
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A. Degand commented
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
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
Highly needed hidden Team shared account feature ... thanks ...
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Anonymous commented
i agree with mark down below