MS Teams and Private Channels

[Switchie_Urs]

"we definately care about such stuff and therefor we will never ever store our customers credentials in an automated script! "

I second that. Storing customer credentials in scripts is a definitive no go for us as a service provider!

[MarkusN]

I don't know if it is specific to our tenant, but to get the newest Privat Channels i have to use -Template "TeamChannel#1"
Older ones, from I think july and earlyer, are still shown with -Template "TeamChannel#0"

[Polina]

Hi Markus,

It's a general change on the Microsoft side - private channel sites created after June 28, 2021, have the custom template ID TEAMCHANNEL#1, while the older ones remain on the TEAMCHANNEL#0.

Thanks for the heads-up!

[pp_er]

Hey there,

I've received a request from a customer regarding the backup of private channels.
Are there any news about this for version 6? Or if that will be implemented soon?

@dasfliege;
It might not help with the MFA, but I'm kind of a scripting guy and I might have a solution for storing passwords "secure".
I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post a link to an external website here; so I'll give you this sentence you can look up: Secure Password with PowerShell: Encrypting Credentials

There are commands to export passwords encrypted in hashes and import them back to create PowerShell credentials.
As I mentioned; might help with the 'plain passwords in scripts' but not for the MFA.

Best regards,
Peter

[Polina]

Hi Peter,

For Teams, there're no changes to expect in v6. It's planned for future releases though.

Thanks!

[tonyn]

With the release of 6.0 is there a supported way of backing up private channel data for teams?

I have Sharepoint backup touching some of these objects but I was more curious as a Teams specific backup.

[Mildur]

Hi Tony

I have moved your question to this topic.

As far as I see, the same limitations are in place with Teams Backup Jobs for V6.
For now, you have to use Sharepoint Jobs to backup the files of a private channel.

[chaase]

the Script doenst catch all private Channels:
Get-SPOSite -Template "TEAMCHANNEL#1" # latest template channels created after June 2021
Get-SPOSite -Template "TEAMCHANNEL#0" # initial template channels created before June 2021

[IT0818]

Will it be possible to backup private channels in the future? Is Veeam in contact with Microsoft?

[Polina]

In some future, yes )
This support is on the roadmap.