Microsoft Teams : Controlling Teams and Channels: How to Manage Channel Policies from Teams admin center

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Today small but important learning article for Teams administrators.

What are Channel Policies?

• Channel policies in Microsoft Teams are used to control what users in our organization can do in Teams and Channels.
• Example – We can set whether users are allowed to create Private or Shared channels

How to manage Teams / Channels policies?

• Navigate to Teams admin center – https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/
• We have detailed article to navigate to Teams admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2022/09/16/small-tips-and-tricks-microsoft-teams-admin-center-how-to-navigate-to-microsoft-teams-admin-center/
• Once we are in Teams admin center as –

• From the left pane, click on “Settings & policies” as shown in above figure.
• We will be navigated to – “settings” page – https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/one-policy/settings

• From settings page, click on “Teams” from right pane under “Org wide default settings” >> Teams & channels (4) as shown in above fig
• As we click on “Teams” from right pane under “Org wide default settings” >> Teams & channels (4) we will be redirected to “Teams settings (Teams Channels)” page – https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/one-policy/settings/teams-channels as

• From Teams settings page, Teams Administrator can control / manage following settings :
  • Discover private teams – This settings allows users to search for private channels. Then users can request for joining private channels.
  • Create private channels – Team owners and members with permission can create private channels for a specific group of users.
  • Create shared channels – Team owners can create the shared channel for users in our organization and outside the organization.
  • Invite external users to shared channels – Owners of a shared channel can invite external users to join the channel, if Microsoft Entra ID external policies are configured.
  • Join external shared channels – Users and teams can be invited to external shared channel, if Microsoft Entra ID external shared policies are configured.

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