Is there a way I can add a guest to a Microsoft Teams channel (Public) without him/her seeing the rest of the channels.

Leonard Kiprop Koech 1 Reputation point
2021-01-05T14:24:47.49+00:00

Is there a way to add a guest to channel on Microsoft teams without him / her seeing the other channels on the Main team.
I saw the option of creating the channel as private. Because of being a guest, I have to add him/her on teams as guest then add him/her on the private channel. He/she might also see all other public channels if I add them on teams. Because of security I am forced to put all channels as private then enforce who has access to what channels for both guest and users on the organization. I have quite a number of teams (which are my projects) and a number of channels on each team.
Other than it being time consuming when I try syncing file from Teams to my machine, all private channel sync as different folders and folder names are repetitive and long.
Public channels are okay while syncing. I can sync all channels at once and it creates subfolders well.

For example I have these three channels on teams (EP18)
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one is private. For me to add a guest on test3(private) I have to add the guest on the (EP18-14) Team then add him on the private channel. That will also mean he can also see the other public channels test1 and 2. Then I have to create those test1 and 2 as private so that the guest does not see them.
With regards to syncing, when I sync eg the Public. I can sync all channels at once and they are structured well (test 1 and 2) But for Private channel I have to sync separate and the structure and naming is no good eg test 3 is repeated twice. For someone who has lonng folder names, It will repeat it twice as shown
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Is there a way I can add a guest to a channel (Public) without him/her seeing the rest of the channels. I have quite a number of projects and I really don’t want to mess up since teams can be sometimes frustrating if you have not planned well eg changing private to public…
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  1. Vasil Michev 95,666 Reputation points MVP
    2021-01-05T15:45:08.973+00:00

    Unfortunately there's no way going around this. Microsoft is currently looking into improving the situation, in the meantime you can go vote it up on UserVoice: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/31374577-channel-only-members-guests

  2. Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,056 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-01-06T02:22:00.293+00:00

    @Leonard Kiprop Koech ,

    Currently, it has no solution to realize this feature. The permission for guest is by default.

    As Michev said, you could vote on UserVoice by this link.

    Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience. Some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future, and your good ideas will be very helpful for them to improve the service.

    Your time, understanding and cooperation will be highly appreciated.

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