Publication date: October 30, 2023 63
Microsoft Teams is a top collaboration platform with messaging capabilities that rival the best messaging apps, although it lacks a core functionality that many of these competing platforms have: the ability to archive inactive channels.
This will change soon, as Microsoft is developing a channel archiving feature for the Teams platform to allow users to easily preserve historical history of conversations and files.
Microsoft currently allows you to archive a team as a whole, but does not allow archiving specific channels. This is a notable drawback because you cannot maintain conversations related to a specific topic or project.
The feature of allowing specific channels to be archived allows the rest of the team to continue active collaboration while maintaining historical record; Which helps users easily find and access relevant channels.
All of these benefits are now coming to Teams through Channel Archiving, and this feature will not be exclusive to Teams Premium subscribers, unlike the upcoming DALL-E integration in Teams.
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Microsoft noted within the feature’s description page The Microsoft 365 roadmap is that it will remove archived channels from active teams and channel lists, and no further actions will be allowed.
The roadmap also showed that the platform is on track in November to add a way to create special backgrounds for channel ads.
Owners and administrators can restore archived TIMES channels if necessary; Archived channels retain their content, such as messages, files, and tabs.
In December this year, the software giant plans to start rolling out this feature to Teams customers in a gradual manner.
It is worth noting that December is the initial release schedule; Which means that the launch may be delayed until next year if things do not go as planned.
In the coming months, Microsoft plans to introduce a large number of new features to the platform, in addition to DALL-E integration and the ability to archive inactive channels.
