Tag: inactive channels

It’s common to find that tenants have many inactive channels in their Teams deployment. Becoming inactive is a natural side-effect of time eroding interest in the topics people discuss in channels. And if you don’t go looking for inactive channels, they’ll remain silently in place doing nothing except acting as a container for potentially obsolete long-over discussions. But we can find inactive channels with PowerShell. What you next is up to you.

From mid-July 2024, Teams will begin hiding inactive channels for users. The inactive channels can be unhidden, and users can opt out of the automatic process. The new clean up routine can be invoked whenever users want and if a mistake is made, it’s easy to unhide a channel. Given the number of channels in use, it’s likely that a few in everyone’s channel list are inactive and deserve to be hidden.