Unable to Create a "General" Channel from Scratch in Teams Desktop

This is incomprehensible. And a multi-month fix to change a channel name? It may seem minor - but we have lots of existing Teams that use General - not gonna change nomenclature now.

I have already created the Team, and deleting and starting anew appears to take 30 days while I wait on the email address from deleted group to be purged so I can can re-use the current email address. That is also preposterous.

The forced non-General channel created is "Main" - is acting as General - it even said when I intended to change it that IF I changed FROM "General" I won't be able to change it back.

Need ability to have one General folder that is located at top of channel for every Team.

Thank you for prompt attention.

Frustrating and I wasted a bunch of time trying to address this little detail.

I finally sacrificed the Team name, blasted it, and started over from Sharepoint. Create TEAM site. Then go to Teams & Groups in 365 Admin >> Active teams and groups, Checkmark group - choose Add to Teams from top nav. It duplicates site to Teams with a General channel.

Hello - not sure if this still works, but I was able to do this on iphone a few weeks ago, and the mobile version of Teams still auto-creates the General channel as before. If you can USE THE TEAMS APP ON YOUR PHONE (not the desktop) - and it will only ask you to name the "Team" and will automatically add "General" as the first channel.
When using app on your Phone (for now, until Microsoft messes it up further) - you only have to enter the Team Name, and General Channel is set up automatically. Hope this helps - let us know if that doesn't work.

This is incomprehensible. And a multi-month fix to change a channel name? It may seem minor - but we have lots of existing Teams that use General - not gonna change nomenclature now.

I have already created the Team, and deleting and starting anew appears to take 30 days while I wait on the email address from deleted group to be purged so I can can re-use the current email address. That is also preposterous.

The forced non-General channel created is "Main" - is acting as General - it even said when I intended to change it that IF I changed FROM "General" I won't be able to change it back.

Need ability to have one General folder that is located at top of channel for every Team.

Thank you for prompt attention.

Hi Myles,

Not sure I fully understand what you mean but, this bug does not affect any of your existing teams.

It only happens when you create a new team and try to pick General as the name of your first channel.

In any case, there are a couple of workarrounds published in this thread:

1. Create your new teams from the Teams admin portal.
2. Create your new teams from the Teams mobile app.

In those 2 cases the first channel will be automatically named General and no questions asked.

I hope this helps

Josu

Josu - obviously I wouldn't be wasting time on this topic or searching the interweb for a solution IF THE BUG WASN'T AFFECTING US.

We have many existing Teams, yes, that are proper with a General folder - I created a NEW team on Teams desktop and tried to mirror our naming conventions and could not.

Trying to make the new Team match the existing Teams led me to this thread.

As noted in my second post, to fix I had to blast the Team and create a new one using one of the other functional methods (in my case starting at Sharepoint). I had to use a slightly different name, but alas, all is now well.