Messages deleted by admins in Microsoft Teams

Admins can search for and remove confidential or sensitive chat and channel messages in Microsoft Teams conversations. 

If an admin removes a message, you’ll see a system message that says This message was deleted by an admin in place of the one that was removed. 

Teams message deleted by an admin

To learn more, see Search and purge chat messages in Teams.

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