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bulk-ms-teams-message-removal-extension

Delete Teams messages in bulk.

ATTENTION:

If you are an admin user, ie. Global Administrator, you can delete other people's messages in any channels. By default, however, that capability is turned off. To enable admin's broader message deleting permission, please following the instructions below. No one can delete other people's chat (DM) messages even if you are an admin.

Usage Instructions

Login Via Microsoft Teams

teams login

Click on the "Login via Teams" button. It'll ask you to grant a set of permissions from Teams in ordcer for the extension to remove messages for you.

Get a license

sign up

Click on "Sign Up" and it will bring you to the sign up page on Lemonsqueezy. Having signed up on Lemonsqueezy, you'll be able to access your license as part of the sign up flow. Also, your license will arrive in your inbox shortly.

Let's bulk delete some messages

app

  1. Select a Team.
  2. Select a private/public channel.
  3. Select the user(s) whose messages you'd like to delete. If you are a normal user, ie. without admin permissions, you can only delete your own message. If you are an admin and would like to delete others' messages, you'll first need to turn on the option to do so. Follow these instructions here

Turn on admin's wider message deletion capability

Visit the Microsoft Teams admin center

  1. In Teams, click on the Admin icon on the left.
  2. Expand the Settings dropdown and select any one of the expanded section.
  3. You should be able to find the Visit the Microsoft Teams admin center link. Click on that. Admin Settings

Change your message policies

Once you are on the Microsoft Teams admin center page, click on Messages on the left. Click on Messaging polices. Finally, in the main window, click on the Global (Org-wide default) link.

message policies

Toggle Owners can delete sent messages to On

toggle global delete on

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