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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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  • IT TECH SUPPORT commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, We need this feature, As unlicensed users chat should not visible on teams chat, i doknow why this has been missed by Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!

  • Christian Rommel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I had contacted Microsoft support and got the following statement:
    In Teams, all users are displayed who are also stored in Azure AD (regardless of whether they have a licence in M365 or not).
    You can only delete the AAD users or work with information barriers. But you have to license each user for the informations barriers.. and this is no option for me.

    Microsoft please fix this! Our users are confused..

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature should have been at the first place. When Teams is a collaboration tool targeted for enterprise MS should have implemented this long time back.

    Please bring the feature of hiding users (active or inactive) from Teams

  • 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.

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