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Support to host a meeting in a Private Channel

Hi there, I've setup a private channel in a Team for supervisors only. I'd like to "host" the regular staff meeting in the private channel, but i can only select "public" channels. Can Microsoft add the ability to host Team meetings within a private channel?

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Omg yes , why would you have the function to set up
    Channels and then not be able to book meetings with that channel ... crazy :)

  • Brad Feury commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The challenge I face, like many other users, is that we may have a TEAM that has 25 to 100 people in it and then within that team +10 channels specific to a project, group, etc... within that Team. However, some of those channels need to be private because the information shared is specific to those channel members. At the same time, you don't want to create yet another TEAM just for those folks.

    The private channel accomplishes that. However, if you need to schedule a team meeting with those folks and tag the contents, notes, etc.. to that meeting for future review by the private team, you cannot do that right now.

    Only way is to setup a one off TEAMS meeting, but it is not tagged to the channel like it is when it is a PUBLIC channel.

  • William Sullivan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If we could add this feature, that would be great. Surely, its not too complicated to do?

    I work a great deal with people under the age of 18 and as such having more functions within a private, safe channel would be most appreciated.

  • Judy Ruhling commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this feature. It doesn't make sense to have to add a public channel to schedule something in advance.

  • John Posada commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature will likely not be be added to Teams any time soon. The feature has received less than 3000 votes; obviously not important to many users. Typically for a feature to be picked up for review, MS needs to see some interest; like seeing more than 5000 votes.

    Existing workarounds:
    1. Easy workaround is to create a new Team. Private channel are never meant to be at the same level of features as a full Team.
    2. Use Slack or WebEx Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Our department has many subcommittees, and we don't want tons of subcommittee meetings clogging up the general channel.

  • Tracy_Washington commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Microsoft has given us the ability to enable their new "Meeting Experience". Enabling the new meeting experience allows you to record meetings in private channels! Perhaps it will allow scheduling now as well?

    This article outlines how to enable the new meeting experience and includes more details regarding its features.

    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/new-meeting-and-calling-experience-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/1537581

  • Alphie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, please, Microsoft. We need this badly. There are meetings that don't make sense to open up to the whole group. The notification will just annoy them and confuse them. Private meetings within the private channels keep the conversation within the same umbrella Teams group without having to disturb the rest of the group who are on a need-to-know basis only. It wouldn't make sense to have to create a separate Teams group just so we can hold meetings with the smaller group. And neither would it make sense to create a standalone meeting in the Calendar. It just renders the private channels almost useless.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a critical need, especially for users in organizations that don't allow Outlook integration with Teams (glares pointedly at DoD). I run meetings with around a hundred people at a time, and it's a different crowd every time, and I have to manually add each name to the invite one by one. And if I have to add a new person to the meeting, it sends out a notification blast to every single person on the invite, and duplicates half the Required line to the Optional line. It's infuriating. Much easier if I can just pull the attendees into a private channel and post the meeting there.

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