Your team has reached the maximum number of private channels
Today we attempted to create a new private channel and received the following error "Your team has reached the maximum number of private channels".
OMG everyone at my company is going to KILL ME. I moved our entire organization off Slack to Teams and to streamline communication we went with a company Team and then inside that Team we create private channels for targetted audience communication. This was done to avoid having to create multiple teams then add everyone who would ever have to communicate with any of the channels inside the team.
In slack they had no limitation on the number of public/private channels and as of today I was told by MS that I am limited to 30 private channels. I can add up to 200 standard channels but that is not going to work as most channels need to be limited to a set of individuals.
MS Please help!
Story Form: As an administrator of teams, I would like to allow more than 30 private channels(unlimited ideally) inside a team, so that our organization is able to utilize a single team for entire company collaboration by allowing users to create private channels to limit the target audience.
Jim Scott
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162 comments
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Anonymous
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Dear sir/madam,
This limit of 30 private channels is just too limited, there should be no limit to the number of channels, as this is the only way I can deal with student groups in large classes where students never met other group members (due to the pandemic) and so if I can't create enough groups, I cannot run my classes. I have nearly 300 students, and need to split them in groups of 5, where they can work as a group, and this limit of 30 is not helping me, as now I need another team, which will only confuse students. These limits should be lifted asap.
Thanks,
Wim -
N TK
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Again and again the scenario of Teacher - Child relationship has been brought into focus with this 30 Private Channel Limit. Private channels are absolutely essential to keep to Child Safeguarding rules. MS please increase this limit ASAP (at least for Edu Licenses). Thanks.
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Anonymous
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This is desperately needed for private communications between teacher and students. Most classes have more than 30 students and by not having the option of more private channels it is putting children at risk of bullying and not being able to speak up
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Robinder
commented
Dear Microsoft,
Private channels should be increased as people of many fields whether its study or job, are using your software and 30 channels is not enough. Kindly extend the limit -
Kendal Friesen
commented
Please increase the limit, thanks!
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Joeri Feyen
commented
30 private channels is not much in 2021. Please extend to more private channels.
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Lars Gundlach
commented
Dear Microsoft,
It is absolutely vital for a lot of companies and individuals that the maximum of 30 private channels per team is removed. Please listen to the voice of your user community.
This is an emotional appeal, as many people have been stuck with this problem and face a lot of difficulties whilst using your product that is Microsoft Teams. It is a waste that such a fine product has such a random limitation.
The community's suggestion would be to either totally remove the limit, or scale it up to 100 or 200. This would help us, the loyal customers of Microsoft, a lot. Next to this, it would also be of great help if deleted channels wouldn't count towards a possible limit.
With great trust in your capabilities and your willingness to resolve this matter of utmost urgency, I thank you in advance for the consideration you will give to this message.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the Microsoft user community
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N TK
commented
Chat has legal issues related to child safeguarding. Need more private channels urgently. Atleast 100 to start with. MS do something soon. Thanks.
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Jur van Geel
commented
We have adopted to Teams in order to process the current demand for online education (we use it for courses, lectures, group work, workshops etc.) However most of our classes consist of between 100 and 450 students, groups are generally about 5 to 8 students, which means we can't facilitate a project group (private Channel) for each group. We were looking to go live next period with education that would solely rely on Teams (and our syllabus website), however when scaling up our alpha test today we discovered the 30 private channel limit which basically blew that plan out of the water....
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Matthew Smith
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Pleassssseeee increase the limit, we have had to disable chat due to safeguarding... but most classes have more than 30 kids in... so can’t even make a private channel for them to then communicate in with the teacher...
I’m now totally sick of everyone telling me.... oooooo Google Classroom doesn’t do that it’s miles better...
Come on Microsoft don’t make me go to the dark side
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Anonymous
commented
Only 30? We just ran into this, and it is crazy. We need much more than this. Please remove this limitation!
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Victoria M.
commented
Number increase of private channels MUST be implemented. I was surpised to reach the limit of private chanels as this limit is so small (max 30 private chanels).
Please implement this increase, drop sharepoint creation for private channels or allow permanent deletion of channels. Please, do something. Thanks. -
Gemma Brown
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Please can this number be increased. As a teacher some class sizes are over 30 and this is causing issues as some students are unable to have a private channel. With safeguarding we have had to turn chat off, so this is their only way of communicating with teachers without the whole class seeing and again adds a level of safeguarding too. Please increase it - we would be very grateful.
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Elisa
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I echo the begging to please increase the limit on the number of private channels, or at minimum, when a private channel is deleted, let that count go back to your 30. I have the need for about 28 private channels for capital tracked projects and they will revolve, so deleting projects once they close, but need to be able to open a new channel when a new project comes in. I'm currently limited at 24 as I've deleted 6 channels. If this doesn't change, I will have to move away from this approach entirely and my CIO is going to be VERY displeased with me. PLEASE HELP!
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N TK
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Hi Jim Scott, Could u pls change the Title of this idea to something like "Increase number of Private Channels from 30" as more people could find this idea easily and support it. Otherwise people create the same idea again and agin. Tnkx.
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N TK
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MS says they need 1000 votes to consider this idea. Vote it up everyone! Thanks!
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Lars Gundlach
commented
Dear Microsoft,
It is absolutely vital for a lot of companies and individuals that the maximum of 30 private channels per team is removed. Please listen to the voice of your user community.
This is an emotional appeal, as many people have been stuck with this problem and face a lot of difficulties whilst using your product that is Microsoft Teams. It is a waste that such a fine product has such a random limitation.
The community's suggestion would be to either totally remove the limit, or scale it up to 100 or 200. This would help us, the loyal customers of Microsoft, a lot. Next to this, it would also be of great help if deleted channels wouldn't count towards a possible limit.
With great trust in your capabilities and your willingness to resolve this matter of utmost urgency, I thank you in advance for the consideration you will give to this message.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the Microsoft user community,
Lars (the Netherlands)
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Lars Gundlach
commented
Dear Microsoft,
It is absolutely vital for a lot of companies and individuals that the maximum of 30 private channels per team is removed. Please listen to the voice of your user community.
This is an emotional appeal, as many people have been stuck with this problem and face a lot of difficulties whilst using your product that is Microsoft Teams. It is a waste that such a fine product has such a random limitation.
The community's suggestion would be to either totally remove the limit, or scale it up to 100 or 200. This would help us, the loyal customers of Microsoft, a lot. Next to this, it would also be of great help if deleted channels wouldn't count towards a possible limit.
With great trust in your capabilities and your willingness to resolve this matter of utmost urgency, I thank you in advance for the consideration you will give to this message.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the Microsoft user community,
Lars (the Netherlands)
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Lars Gundlach
commented
Dear Microsoft,
It is absolutely vital for a lot of companies and individuals that the maximum of 30 private channels per team is removed. Please listen to the voice of your user community.
This is an emotional appeal, as many people have been stuck with this problem and face a lot of difficulties whilst using your product that is Microsoft Teams. It is a waste that such a fine product has such a random limitation.
The community's suggestion would be to either totally remove the limit, or scale it up to 100 or 200. This would help us, the loyal customers of Microsoft, a lot. Next to this, it would also be of great help if deleted channels wouldn't count towards a possible limit.
With great trust in your capabilities and your willingness to resolve this matter of utmost urgency, I thank you in advance for the consideration you will give to this message.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the Microsoft user community,
Lars (the Netherlands)
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Lars Gundlach
commented
Dear Microsoft,
It is absolutely vital for a lot of companies and individuals that the maximum of 30 private channels per team is removed. Please listen to the voice of your user community.
This is an emotional appeal, as many people have been stuck with this problem and face a lot of difficulties whilst using your product that is Microsoft Teams. It is a waste that such a fine product has such a random limitation.
The community's suggestion would be to either totally remove the limit, or scale it up to 100 or 200. This would help us, the loyal customers of Microsoft, a lot. Next to this, it would also be of great help if deleted channels wouldn't count towards a possible limit.
With great trust in your capabilities and your willingness to resolve this matter of utmost urgency, I thank you in advance for the consideration you will give to this message.
Kind regards,
On behalf of the Microsoft user community,
Lars (the Netherlands)