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Convert Private Channel to Public Channel

Its good that Private channels are introduced in MS Teams. Can we have a option to convert a private channel to public channel.

Thanks & Regards,
Bhanu

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Bhanu prasad shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
on the backlog  ·  AdminAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded  · 

Thank you for your feedback! The team has reviewed this request and has added it to our backlog for both Private to Standard (Public) and Standard (Public) to Private channel conversion. We will share an update as soon as it’s available.

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  • PPJAdams commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please add this option so I don't have to keep deleting and re-adding a channel that needs to be made public to all members of the channel.

  • Diana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, much needed to move a "pilot/test" channel into a "general" channel, since not all channels are just documents, mine are sharepoint / web page type that takes a lot of time to move and I would lose the history / date stamp of when things were added / uploaded.

  • Brenda commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely would like the ability to convert from private to public and vice versa. I have just laid out a team with private channels for the purposes of development only to find out I can't make it public.

  • Sandra commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This request was submitted in September 2019 and now it's July 2020 and still has not happened? Is this going to be implemented SOON? It needs to be and everyone is crying out for it so come on Microsoft - get a grip and sort this out pronto please..... Now that more and more people are using Teams, you need to be moving a lot quicker on the feedback you're getting.....

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please hurry with the update. This is very restrictive and not in the interest of the end-user. Not sure why the owner cannot change from private to public or vice versa if the owner is allow to manage who can be in a channel.

    Can you give an update on this suggestion being taken under consideration?

  • Mario C. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Bi-directional conversion is absolutely necessary.

    As @emily commented, some projects may start private, only requiring a few people from the Team, but then can be opened to the entire Team.

    Also, as @Andrew commented, this breaks migration of content from one tenant to another.

    My company is in the second situation currently, as we are preparing to migrate our content from one tenant to another.

  • Andrew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this stops us from being able to migrate private channels to a different tenant, hence losing a bunch of stuff. I know we can manually export and import but when you have 300+ teams with 1000's of private channels this really isnt easy to migrate or manage at all.

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