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Teams Disaster; unable to use after purchasing a one year license

On March 18, 2026 I purchased Teams Essentials for myself and two "employees". The only way I was able to use it was through the cloud. Installing it on my laptop created a condition whereby it would revert to Teams Classic. Me and my team made…

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asked 2026-05-06T02:46:09.9466667+00:00
EParksJr 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-05-06T04:34:12.34+00:00
Doris V 1,600 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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"Folder has been moved or deleted" after SharePoint Site Swap

​I encounter the error "The folder you're looking for has been moved or deleted" whenever I click the Files tab in our "Marketing General" channel. This started happening after we performed a SharePoint Site Swap to replace the old…

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asked 2026-05-04T05:36:39.0033333+00:00
Toharu Knapf 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2026-05-05T02:10:08.42+00:00
Huy-K 11,840 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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pulling fields from a spreadsheet in one teams channel to a spreadsheet in a separate teams channel

I have a spreadsheet in one teams channel with in our agency, I need to be able to pull certain colums from that spreadsheet to populate to a separate spreadsheet in another teams channel

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asked 2026-04-29T18:11:04.3433333+00:00
Miller, Shelly 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-04-29T19:14:56.11+00:00
Kristen-L 12,580 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Teams Channel Files Tab Shows Blank Page Until “Reload Pane” Is Manually Triggered

We are experiencing an issue affecting multiple users in Microsoft Teams (version 26072.519.4556.7438) where channel files are not loading correctly. When users navigate to a Teams channel and open the “Files” tab (Shared tab), the pane appears…

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asked 2026-04-28T10:59:00.0566667+00:00
Christian Berg Smith 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-04-29T14:26:13.07+00:00
Daniel-Vo 5,645 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Upload Stuck

During the upload process, files either remain stuck in a “Uploading…” state indefinitely or fail with a generic error message such as “Upload failed” or “Something went wrong. Please try again.” In some cases, the upload progress completes but the file…

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asked 2026-04-16T03:42:21.48+00:00
Remy Williams 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-04-22T00:28:46.52+00:00
Remy Williams 20 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can we search for all documents by one owner?

Hello Support Team, Our team is reviewing options to maintain our team's documentation. One option is that each document owner can view all of the documents they own. I don't see an option in our wiki pages to pull up all of the documents I (or another…

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asked 2026-04-01T16:29:14.1033333+00:00
Erickson, Bobby E 25 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-04-01T18:26:04.4866667+00:00
Chris Duong 8,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can i just de-activate a channel, then delete or move my folders in sharepoint and re-activate the channel when i am finished?

Trying to clean up a sharepoint site - delete unneeded folders and move others to different folders. AI says i must deactive the channel, but i don't want to lose other content that may be in the channel. am i able to de-activate channel as AI say,…

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asked 2026-03-26T22:02:52.0033333+00:00
Cheryl Barker 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-03-31T23:56:55.5833333+00:00
Huy-K 11,840 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Deleting folders on sharepoint site

I have a teams channel that is connected to a sharepoint site. I have another sharepoint site (same name) that has different folders in it that i need to clean up. i am trying to delete empty folders and archive others. There is no delete option on…

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asked 2026-03-24T18:03:46.74+00:00
Cheryl Barker 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-03-26T21:52:31.9833333+00:00
Cheryl Barker 20 Reputation points
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Teams is showing file timestamps not matching the user's time zone

Multiple users seem to have the problem that their file time stamp seems to show pacific time the normal standard setting wich I checked and is put on the correct timezone. Now I have tried checking multiple stuff like: 1)Their personal microsoft365…

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asked 2026-03-18T09:29:42.0766667+00:00
Mabesoone, N. (Nico) 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-03-19T15:39:06.9466667+00:00
Daniel-Vo 5,645 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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adding files in teams

how do I add a file in teams for others to open and view

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asked 2026-03-11T00:20:09.1266667+00:00
Brenda 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-03-12T05:36:44.43+00:00
Jade Ng 11,335 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Teams opens the wrong file

Last month I sent an Excel file to my collegue (book.xlsx), now I sent him a new one (book_2.xlsx) with updated data. Every time any one of us tries to open the older version (book.xlsx) it always opens the new one (book_2.xlsx), BUT it shows the…

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asked 2026-03-10T08:22:49.06+00:00
Krizso 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-03-11T15:04:55.83+00:00
Daniel-Vo 5,645 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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Why is Excel Teams Protection Limited?

Teams is the best way to have a team have access to a document that they all need to edit. But there is no way to have ranges locked unless it opens on desktop, and then there's no way to have the document set for everyone to automatically open in…

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asked 2026-03-06T21:35:29.69+00:00
Johnson, Danielle (RTM) 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-03-06T23:09:07.8166667+00:00
Hendrix-C 15,095 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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weaponizable file detection in Teams

We have weaponizable file detection in Teams enabled. Files are only block files based on extension and not on mime type. Simple test shows that when a exe file is send, the file is blocked. But when we rename the file to *.txt the file is not…

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asked 2026-02-13T10:06:46.0966667+00:00
LF 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-02-16T11:15:10.7166667+00:00
Daniel-Vo 5,645 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Teams site issues - files appearing in the SharePoint version of the site, but not on the Teams app or Teams web version

I have a Team site that yesterday I noticed had no files within. This site has multiple (21) channels, all which should have had multiple files in, and all of which are now empty. When accessing the 'shared' tab (I believe until recently the was labelled…

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asked 2026-02-11T14:53:52.31+00:00
Kerry McGreavy 20 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-02-11T16:42:01.17+00:00
Chris Duong 8,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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How to remove the black bar with "image" when viewing shared images?

When viewing shared imaged in Teams, either shared to me or I shared the image, there is a large black bar that obstructs the bottom of the image, the only label on the bar is "image". Trying to resize the image will make seeing the image more…

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asked 2026-01-30T17:59:29.15+00:00
Andrew House 70 Reputation points
commented 2026-02-11T15:07:09.1766667+00:00
Jeff Lawrence 15 Reputation points
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Unable to move or delete Teams folder

I am unable to move or delete certain teams folders in a channel. Some of which I can, but others I can not. I am the owner of the channel. Attachement shows two folder settings next to each other.

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asked 2026-01-30T14:10:32.1566667+00:00
D 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-01-30T16:14:25.34+00:00
Anonymous
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Teams Files Not Loading

When accessing my team, nobody in my org can see the files for any of the channels. When going to the files tab, it either perpetually loads or just shows nothing- not even the menus accross the top for adding or editing files. Other tabs, such as the…

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asked 2026-01-09T19:32:03.37+00:00
Carson C 0 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-01-22T19:50:18.96+00:00
Anonymous
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Can't send files to external users

I Can't send files to external users in Microsoft team

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asked 2026-01-15T01:53:53.1566667+00:00
Chan Narak 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-01-15T23:15:28.22+00:00
Jeanie H 11,910 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
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External Guest User Blocked from Accessing SharePoint Folder Due to Sign-In Risk

An external (guest) user is attempting to access a shared SharePoint folder but receives the error shown in the screenshot. Which tenant is responsible for clearing the sign-in risk on the user account the hosting tenant (my tenant) or the guest user’s…

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asked 2026-01-14T22:17:28.12+00:00
Ben 0 Reputation points
answered 2026-01-15T00:32:32.5366667+00:00
Anonymous
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Files on multiple channels

I am wondering if there is a way if a file is saved in a folder in more than 1 channel if it's updated in one it's automatically updated in the other?? I.e - we have learning objective files that we keep on an administration side and also on a learner…

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asked 2026-01-13T16:12:00.6866667+00:00
Sarah J 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-01-14T17:37:08.35+00:00
Chris Duong 8,655 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator