Connexion
Manage Microsoft Teams and channel connected team sites in SharePoint admin center
With growing adoption of Microsoft Teams and Channels, Microsoft heard the feedback to simplify the management of Teams and Channel connected sites. Microsoft is enhancing the Active sites page experience in SharePoint admin center to include channel sites that are provisioned when a special channel is added to a Team in Microsoft Teams.
So now, when you go to a teams-connected site in SharePoint online admin center, you see all corresponding channel sites and can ensure that right optional security policies are inherited from the parent site.
Enhancements included in this release:
- New Site connected to Teams view that filters the sites list to only sites that are Teams connected.
- New Teams column identifying the site is connected to teams.
- New Channel Sites column identifying the team connected site has associated Private or Shared channel sites.
- Additional entry points to channel sites from Teams connected site info panel.
- All new Active sites pivot showing the channel sites associated to the teams connected site.
- The pivot includes a list of channel sites that are associated to the Teams connected site. This list will only include Private sites as of now and will expend to include other special sites in the future. Channel are view only and inherit properties from Teams that are managed in Teams admin center.
- New Type column that accessible from the new Active Sites pivot.
- Ability to manage Channel site storage limit.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82161.
Release Timeline
Rollout will begin in early December 2021 and it is expected to complete the rollout by late January 2022.
How this will affect your organization
Historically, channel sites have been only accessible to admins through PowerShell and through the Microsoft Teams client app. With these enhancements admins can now access channel sites through SharePoint online admin center UX as well.
What you need to do to prepare
No special preparation is required. Once the enhancements are available in your tenant you will be able to start using them immediately, without any impact to your day-to-day experience.
