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Make public channel private

It would be nice to convert some of our already established channels to private now the feature is available in the same way it may be desired to de-classify a private channel to public at some point too.

Currently a channel privacy can only be set during creation.

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  • Margie Dolch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, we've had numerous use cases where we wanted to switch after certain activities allowed us to share with broader team.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi Admins,
    Is there an update on this functionality as yet? This really is a must have in an ever changing business world... Last Admin update was from Alex back in August so just checking if there had been any further updates to this.
    Thank you.

  • Miriam commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I cannot believe that in the year we have had with all the remote pivots, working from home etc. etc. that Microsoft has not sorted this yet. It seems like such basic functionality; would save everyone a lot of time and frustration. ASAP, please!

  • Pavel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If you want to enter a new market of scientific labs you must have this feature. More helpful could be the ability to invite channel guests who will see just a single channel.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please address this quickly! I have a growing Team that is about to get bigger and I will need to have this tool to manage privacy and keep up productive use of Microsoft Teams. Thank you.

  • Doug Appel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be a very helpful feature as everything is always changing and there is a strong need to be able to adapt to changes in our environments. This limitation is a bit shocking, considering the flexibility we have become accustomed to with the various collaboration apps that we are working with.

    To add insult to injury, I can't even delete the channel and recreate a channel with the same name as there doesn't appear to be a way to permanently delete the channel.

  • Sandy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This would be very useful, is there an update on delivery date?

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