Users added to team line removed
In each general channel a new line gets created for all new users added to a team. Can this line be removed?
As an example I setup a team and get some posts ready for welcome messages and introductions, then when I add groups of people, after a few lines all my messages have pushed up and off the screen.
We have one specific team for all in the business and all the threads are getting lost as we add each department/individuals one by one.
Peter Charrington
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The team is reviewing this item and discussing potential short term and long term solutions for this. Thanks.
520 comments
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Joris Dinet
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I also think this notification in the general channel is not necessary. Instead, an email to the team owners is deemed appropriate. I had the situation where I as tenant admin deleted a user from Office365. This user was part of a couple of teams of which I was not a member. Obviously the user gets removed from the team, but the notification message in the general channel said that one of the team owners deleted the user from the team. Now I get those users calling me saying that someone must have had access to their account because they did not do anything, yet they see this message popping up that they removed a user from the team. This is a big bug IMHO.
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Anonymous
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Definitely could be a GDPR / Privacy issue especially when using the Org Wide Team - the rest of the business do not need to know when someone has been added or removed from a Team - particularly this one which everyone has access to.
Your short term solution needs to be released ASAP - simple as a switch in the Team settings that owners can select to "hide membership changes from general channel conversation".
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Anonymous
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Notifications for users being added/removed clutter the field and decrease the value of discussion of the streams. If this could be turned off, it would improve the features of Teams. Thanks!!
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Pete Garvey
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This is something we can't continue to wait on. Microsoft, can you update on the short and long term solutions you have discussed?
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Anonymous
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I agree this should be removed, or have a feature to opt out! creating nuisance in the channels and possible HR concerns after employee terminations.
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Rajanee
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WE are facing the same issue where users getting added/removed automatically and it picks up any random Teams owner name .
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Ryan Mintzer
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Teams should allow a configuration setting to turn off membership change notifications. The messages that "Mike was added to the group" and "Mike left the group" are a nuisance for large teams. It also can present privacy or communication issues when employees leave the company. It would be great if this can be a configuarable option. Thanks!
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Mark Phillips
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This is unbelievably annoying. Beyond that, when I go to Teams to see if there is anything noteworthy, almost all my Teams appear to have recent activity, but not really. This is turn causes me to tune out the indicator, which makes it useless.
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Ryan Elsenheimer
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You have got to be kidding me Microsoft. Get off the review and get this done. Tolerating delays of even a month, when 3700 people have voted and 510 have commented for this ABILITY, its not a mandatory setting, its an option we want done so Teams doesn't look like an utter mess is totally unacceptable. This is especially true for education (Thousands of students added/removed from teams - talk about an utter mess all the time. You have been sitting on this for far too long.
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Anonymous
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This would be very useful keeps the the channel tidy
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Andreas Huppert
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This is a no-go to use teams as a collaboration tool in a +100k employee company. I see now why busy channels are set up in Slack instead.
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Loc Nguyen
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As many people have stated, this is a huge issue for terminations if IT is meant to disable an account before the person is actually terminated. At the very least an option to show/hide these messages would solve this immediately.
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Carty
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This is proving a nightmare for sensitive hires / leavers - especially when it posts the message in the whole org team.
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Anonymous
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Get rid of the annoying posts in the general conversation flow notices, Make it optional!
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Anonymous
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Please, make it so!
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Anonymous
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We need this ASAP. Not only annoying but also a poor design: why do regular users need to view a log of actions on the channel?
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Anonymous
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MIcrosoft is aggressively pushing for TEAMS to be used as an educational tool, and by that I mean for school age students, particularly so during coronavirus lockdown. It seems to me that they have very little idea of what a school-age ed app should look like. The GENERAL channel noise is distracting and misleading, and their inability to listen does not bode well for the future. There are other incomprehensible shortcomings, particularly for language training. As an example, you can't listen to audios while visualising the corresponding test question on the screen, or any other split-screen activities, of which there are many. Now we have to migrate all the data to another app, but that's what we are going to do. Every other educational app is not just better - they are much better. We have signed up for a 6-month trial, but we won't be continuing.be continuing. Get out now before you are in too deep.
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Guy Martin
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These messages should be off by default for members, on by default for Owners, and configurable by the team owner or admin.
Ideally, configure the types of messages that are shown (e.g. hide removal notices, show join notices, show channel creations only to owners etc)
I agree with Rob below that suggested clearing the General channel as an owner would also be useful.
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Sigve Martin Mæland
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Teams is also used for the governing bodies in our company. We don't want executive members to be annoyed over the log and unnecessary posts.
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Rob
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It would be ideal if we could clear the entire General > Posts as owners of the Team