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Before diving into management specifics, it’s important to distinguish between the two primary types of channels in Microsoft Teams:
Channel permissions define what members are allowed to do within a channel. Team owners have the ability to manage these settings. The following table outlines some common permissions that can be modified:
Permission | Description | Standard Channel | Private Channel |
---|---|---|---|
Post messages | Allows members to contribute in conversations. | ✓ | Configurable |
Create tabs | Members can create new tabs for apps and content. | Configurable | Configurable |
Add connectors | Members can integrate external services using connectors. | Configurable | Configurable |
Delete and edit messages | Members can modify or remove their messages. | Configurable | Configurable |
To manage channel permissions:
In Teams, there are several settings that can be managed for each channel, such as moderation and guest permissions. For example, for moderation, Teams allows you to designate certain members as moderators who control the posts and replies in standard channels.
Here’s how to enable moderation:
In the case of guest permissions, you can control what guests can or cannot do in a channel. This contributes to maintaining security and compliance with the organization’s policies.
Channel notifications are critical to ensure team members stay informed about relevant activity. Each individual user can manage their own notification settings for each channel:
Understanding channel usage can help in managing Teams effectively. Microsoft Teams provides analytics for each channel to offer insights into the activity and engagement levels.
To view analytics:
When a channel is no longer active, it can be archived to preserve its content while preventing new activity. To archive a channel:
Advanced management tasks may require the use of PowerShell cmdlets or the Graph API. These tools allow administrators to script and automate the management of channels:
Effective management of Microsoft Teams channel settings requires a comprehensive approach that considers types of channels, permissions, notifications, analytics, and archival processes. As teamwork and collaboration needs evolve, staying adept at managing these settings becomes integral for a Teams administrator certified with MS-700 Managing Microsoft Teams.
Answer: True
Explanation: When you delete a channel in Microsoft Teams, it is placed in a soft-deleted state for 30 days. During this period, you can restore the channel if needed.
Answer: True
Explanation: Every channel in Microsoft Teams has a unique email address that members can use to send email messages which will appear as posts within the channel.
Answer: C) 10,000
Explanation: A single Microsoft Teams channel can support up to 10,000 members.
Answer: True
Explanation: Channel moderation in Microsoft Teams allows you to control who can start new posts. When enabled, you can set it so only owners or specific members can start new conversations.
Answer: A) Channel moderation
Explanation: Channel moderation can be used to restrict who can post messages in a channel. By setting it appropriately, the channel can be made to receive posts only from services like connectors and bots.
Answer: True
Explanation: Private channels in Microsoft Teams have their own SharePoint site collection, separate from the parent team’s site, to ensure privacy and security of the data.
Answer: False
Explanation: Members of a team usually have the ability to add tabs to a channel, unless the team owners have modified the member permissions to restrict this action.
Answer: False
Explanation: Once a channel is created as a standard or a private channel, it cannot be converted to the other type. You have to create a new channel of the desired type.
Answer: D) Both A and C are correct
Explanation: In Microsoft Teams, users can pin a channel by clicking on the channel options (ellipsis) and then selecting “Pin”, or by right-clicking the channel and choosing “Pin to top”.
Answer: C) Analytics and reporting
Explanation: Analytics and reporting are not managed at the channel level but at the team level in Microsoft Teams. Privacy settings, channel moderation, and member permissions are all manageable settings at the channel level.
A Teams policy is a set of settings that can be applied to a group of users or a specific team, controlling the features and functionality available to those users or team members.
Examples include allowing private channels, allowing channel cross-posting, and allowing custom memes.
It can be used to create, modify, and delete private channels as needed, as well as control the permissions and access rights of the users who can view and contribute to those channels.
This setting controls who is allowed to create private channels and can be restricted to certain members of the team or specific roles within the team.
This setting controls the lifespan of private channels and can be used to automatically delete channels after a certain period of time to ensure that sensitive information is not retained longer than necessary.
Private channel access can be restricted to specific members of the team or roles within the team to ensure that sensitive information is only shared with those who need it.
No, Private Channels Life Cycle Management only applies to private channels.
Teams policies can be applied to specific users through PowerShell commands or the Teams admin center.
The default Teams policy can be modified by creating a new policy based on the default policy and changing the desired settings.
Teams policies can be used to restrict certain features or actions that are not compliant with organizational policies, such as disabling the ability to share files externally.
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