{"id":15662,"date":"2020-04-02T15:28:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=15662"},"modified":"2023-08-17T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T11:41:00","slug":"teams-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/teams-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbidden characters in names of Teams sites and channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Don&#8217;t include these characters in the names of sites and channels in Microsoft Teams<\/h2>\n<p><b>~\u00a0 #\u00a0 %\u00a0 &amp;\u00a0 *\u00a0 {\u00a0 }\u00a0 +\u00a0 \/\u00a0 \\\u00a0 :\u00a0 &lt;\u00a0 &gt;\u00a0 ?\u00a0 |\u00a0 &#8216;\u00a0 &#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Channel names<\/strong> also shouldn&#8217;t start with<b>\u00a0<\/b>an underscore (_) or period (.), or end it with a period (.).<\/p>\n<h2>Impact<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It will affect functionality such as meetings<\/li>\n<li><b>If your Team has these characters, don&#8217;t rename it<\/b><\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re looking at fixing this as a matter of priority<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/guides\/staff-file-storage-saving-and-sharing-files\/teams-for-staff#creating-teams-sites\">Teams naming guidelines in our Teams guide<\/a> will be kept up to date regarding this issue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15425\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/03\/letterbox-teams.png\" alt=\"Teams is part of Office 365, logo denotes collaboration\" width=\"771\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/03\/letterbox-teams.png 771w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/03\/letterbox-teams-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2020\/03\/letterbox-teams-768x214.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t include these characters in the names of sites and channels in Microsoft Teams ~\u00a0 #\u00a0 %\u00a0 &amp;\u00a0 *\u00a0 {\u00a0 }\u00a0 +\u00a0 \/\u00a0 \\\u00a0 :\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/teams-names\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10268,155646],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15662"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15705,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15662\/revisions\/15705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}