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"This team has exceeded the Max allowed channels" - The team has 139 channels

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I have a flow that creates a channel in a team. It's now telling me that "This team has exceeded the Max allowed channels". I thought the max number of channels was 200. I've gone into the Teams admin portal and removed dozens of channels leaving us currently at 139 channels. It's been over 10 hours and I'm still getting this error.

How many channels do I need to remove before we've no longer exceeded the max allowed channels?

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Hi @anthonys123,

Are any of these channels, private channels? If so, how much?

That is a different limitation, I believe that limit is 30 private channels. It is possible you are running into that limit? Also deleted channels are included in that count btw.

See footnote 4 in this article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/limits-specifications-teams

Deleted channels can be restored within 30 days. During these 30 days, a deleted channel continues to be counted towards the 200 channel or 30 private channel per team limit. After 30 days, a deleted channel and its content are permanently deleted and the channel no longer counts towards the per team limit.

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Well WTF, we're supposed to halt business for 30 days?

No private channels.

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Hi @anthonys123,

Yes, I agree. It is not great that you only have the option to soft-delete the channels and no option to hard-delete them and have to wait for 30 days.

Sorry, nothing much I can do about that limit. I am not an Microsoft employee 😁

You can try and reach out to Microsoft support with a service request in your tenant, maybe they can help you out?

In the meantime you can also upvote this feedback item:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/9a9e3a8a-4ebe-ed11-83ff-000d3a1ab5c3

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