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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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  • Drew H. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I believe this is possible in Slack & since we are migrating everything to Microsoft 365 this would be a great addition to the feature set of Teams! We want to be able to make channels private or public based on need without having to recreate the channels!

  • N.N. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We definitely need this feature + vice versa!!!

    Actually, I can't understand how this wasn't there to begin with. When creating one or the other channel there should have been at least an information for the user that it is not possible to switch between standard and private channel after creation. I really miss an access rights management for each created team giving us the possibility to allow new team members to access certain channels within a team.... It really is annoying as I am working with an initial Team and channel structure, that doesn't suit any more and I can't create a whole new team with private channels only, losing all the information and progress information just to get the access rights correct. The consequence right now is, that specific members don't get access to those teams-ressources they need.

    I really hope you'll add this feature soon. We love working with Teams, it has made so many processes easier and faster and this feature missing is basically the only thing that is quite frustrating. Thank you.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Mandatory since if you want to have 1 private channel you have to give access to a member that is already granted in the Team so all the others channels must be also private in order to not allow this member to see the others channels

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed - this is a highly needed feature. We are trying to master communication among 10 channels in Teams, however will not use it until we have the ability to change privacy settings, and add and drop users to private teams. I spent a few minutes trying to find this feature and am shocked that it's not an option to make a channel public or private as needed.

    How is teams able to effectively be used if this is not a feature? The whole point of having channels is to sub group into relevant topics - crazy that we can not do this easily.

  • Tim Ellis commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a very needed feature. Now that more people than ever are using Teams it is critical. I have teams full of information in each channel. I need to add new users to the Team so that they can access the information on some channels but not all. I need to be able to control who can access the already existing channel.

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