Microsoft Teams: Essential Q&A for Interviews
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Sharing first set of Microsoft Teams questions and answers. These will help to prepare interviews, certifications.
If you want details for any concept/feature of Microsoft Teams, please specify in comment box. I’ll try to have an article for the same.
Q 1. What is Team Meeting Policy?
- A meeting policy is a set of settings.
- These settings defines the user experience and permissions for meetings in Teams.
- We can use the predefined meeting policies or create our own custom policies.
- We can assign a meeting policy to individual users, groups of users, or the entire organization.
Q 2. What are Private Meetings?
- Private meetings are meetings that aren’t published to a channel and have a specific list of invitees.
Q 3. How to get a Channel email address?
- We will get a Channel Email address from Channel settings.
- We have detailed article for the same. Teams administration – Step-by-Step Guide to Emailing Teams Channels – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/01/22/teams-administration-send-email-to-teams-channels/
Q 4. 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
Q 5. How to manage Teams / Channels policies?
- We can manage Teams / Channels policies from the Teams “settings” page – https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/one-policy/settings in Teams admin center.
- We have detailed article for the same. Microsoft Teams : Controlling Teams and Channels: How to Manage Channel Policies from Teams admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/09/07/msteams-manage-teams-channel-policies-from-teams-admin-center/
Q 6. Can we hide inactive channels?
- Yes, we can hide inactive channels.
- We have detailed article on the same.
- Microsoft Teams – Teams administration – How to initiate or stop channel hiding – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/11/09/m365-teams-how-to-initiate-or-stop-channel-hiding/
Q 7. How to turn disable the uploading of custom emojis and reactions?
- We can disable /turn-off the uploading of custom emojis and reactions from Teams admin center.
- We have detailed article on the same.
- Microsoft Teams administration: Custom emojis and reactions settings in Teams admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/12/18/msteams-administration-custom-emojis-n-reactions-settings-teams-admin-center/
Q 8. How to disable the particular apps in Teams ?
- We can block / unblock apps from the Teams admin center.
- We have detailed article for the same.
- Microsoft Teams administration – small learning – how to block / unblock apps from Teams admin center – Teams Governance – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/04/18/msteamsadminblock-unblock-apps/
Q 9. What are private channels?
- Private channels create focused spaces for collaboration within a Team.
- Anyone, including guests, can be added as a member of a private channel, which are part of the Team.
- Only the users of Team who are owners or members of the private channel can access this channel.
Q 10. How to restrict – only Team members can send email to Teams Channel?
- We have a channel setting available.
- We have detailed article for the same. Teams administration – Step-by-Step Guide to Emailing Teams Channels – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/01/22/teams-administration-send-email-to-teams-channels/
REFERENCES
- Microsoft Teams : Controlling Teams and Channels: How to Manage Channel Policies from Teams admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/09/07/msteams-manage-teams-channel-policies-from-teams-admin-center/
- Microsoft Teams – Teams administration – How to initiate or stop channel hiding – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/11/09/m365-teams-how-to-initiate-or-stop-channel-hiding/
- Microsoft Teams administration: Custom emojis and reactions settings in Teams admin center – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/12/18/msteams-administration-custom-emojis-n-reactions-settings-teams-admin-center/
- Microsoft Teams administration – small learning – how to block / unblock apps from Teams admin center – Teams Governance – https://knowledge-junction.in/2024/04/18/msteamsadminblock-unblock-apps/
- Teams administration – Step-by-Step Guide to Emailing Teams Channels – https://knowledge-junction.in/2025/01/22/teams-administration-send-email-to-teams-channels/
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