Comments on: Teams to Begin Automatically Hiding Inactive Channels

By: Tessa van Roekel

Tessa van Roekel — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:54:32 +0000

In reply to Dries Verdonckt.

I also don’t see this option 🙁

With or without Public Preview..
Any thoughts

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:18:31 +0000

In reply to Dries Verdonckt. I checked my client today.The Hide Inactive Channels option is there.

By: Dries Verdonckt

Dries Verdonckt — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:18:43 +0000

it seems this option is not visible anymore in teams…
Anyone else mssing this option?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 14:07:35 +0000

In reply to wroot. All changes to UI cause some form of annoyance to some people. I have never seen a UI change that was universally welcomed.

By: wroot

wroot — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 13:08:55 +0000

In reply to Tony Redmond. FWIW, i have seen angry comment on MS blog that it doesn't unhide channel and users are missing messages in such channel that was deemed inactive for them as they are not actively opening it.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 11:38:54 +0000

In reply to Sam. Hiding a channel just removes it from user view. It has nothing to do with notifications. Users can unhide a channel at any time.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:18:33 +0000

Can anyone confirm whether or not if a channel becomes active again once Microsoft has hidden it, will users receive notifications of the recent activity or will the channel become active again?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:28:23 +0000

In reply to Daniel.

I’m sorry, but I don’t think there is any way to revert the feature. It is what it is… You could protest on the Teams feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/ad198462-1c1c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:07:40 +0000

Hi Tony thanks for the info. Some colleagues reported that they cannot find some channels in Teams anymore and so I found your post:)

I can experience the same behavior. We have lots of customer teams that get created from a MS Flow following a certain structure (5 general channels for each team). Lots of these channels are hidden now. I already unchecked the button in MS Teams saying:

“Clean up channel list” but it seems like this is not reverting it. In some customer teams we have more than 100 channels for existing projects and the general channels such as “Basic Information” for example is at the very bottom and I would need to manually make it visible. This is obviously now acceptable.

Does anyone know:

Is there a way to globally deactivate that feature via MS Teams Admin and/or Intune to prevent newly registered devices / teams from cleaning up the channel list? Could not find anything so far.

How can I revert these changes on existing devices so that it was like it was before (the general channels are on the top again).

Thanks!!

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 08:10:58 +0000

In reply to wroot. Re. channels are important - that's why you get a chance to review them before Teams auto-hides. And if a channel is truly important, I guess people will go looking for it if it is hidden and be able to find it in the channel list.

By: wroot

wroot — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:52:40 +0000

I am all for to hide some channels in my list. I am actually actively going and hiding some of them that are inactive or not relevant. But i wonder how are they going to do this. Some channels are not active for a while, but still important. I should see if new messages appear there. Will it automatically unhide them in such case. I am guessing that it will not. Which will be less useful and make some messages gone unseen.