How to disable certain aspects of Microsoft Teams
Looking for ways to limit users to only using Microsoft Teams for IM, voice and video calls.
We already use Slack and think that Slack does what Slack does better than Teams.
Unfortunately due to Skype for Business going end of life, we are being forced into Teams.
Some of the telecoms, video-conferencing and IM stuff is great in Teams but we prefer Slack for collaborative working.
We don't want to confuse users though, so are looking for ways to lock down the Teams specific stuff but still allow people to use it for the stuff it does well.
Has anyone got any advice about how to lock it down?
One other way we thought we could tackle it was to have notifications enabled for anyone that creates so that we can delete them / advise against. Any thoughts about achieving that?
Jon
We already use Slack and think that Slack does what Slack does better than Teams.
Unfortunately due to Skype for Business going end of life, we are being forced into Teams.
Some of the telecoms, video-conferencing and IM stuff is great in Teams but we prefer Slack for collaborative working.
We don't want to confuse users though, so are looking for ways to lock down the Teams specific stuff but still allow people to use it for the stuff it does well.
Has anyone got any advice about how to lock it down?
One other way we thought we could tackle it was to have notifications enabled for anyone that creates so that we can delete them / advise against. Any thoughts about achieving that?
Jon
Enabling Teams license to a user auto allows the user to IM others, can make audio call, video calls etc within Teams.
what you expect is already given as a default options..
Other options that are available is like..
1. Whether Users can create Teams (also knows an Office 365 Groups) ? - You can restrict this by restricting users from creating groups.
2. Collaborate with other company Teams users - Teams Admin console -> Org Settings -> External Access - ensure no domains are created for collaboration
3. Teams Meeting - Going to allow or not - check the Meeting Policy settings ( Teams admin console -> Meetings -> Meeting Policies)
You can have these settings releated with meeting policies - Allow IP videos, allow remove sharing, giving controls to others, allow meet now in private meetings etc..
4. Are you going to allow anonymous users to join meetings ? - Teams admin console -> Meetings ->Meeting Settings
5. IM controls - Options available for you to control -> Teams admin console -> Messaging Policies
6. Additional Integration settings -> Teams admin console -> Teams setting - lock the unwanted options
revert if any additional details required in specific
what you expect is already given as a default options..
Other options that are available is like..
1. Whether Users can create Teams (also knows an Office 365 Groups) ? - You can restrict this by restricting users from creating groups.
2. Collaborate with other company Teams users - Teams Admin console -> Org Settings -> External Access - ensure no domains are created for collaboration
3. Teams Meeting - Going to allow or not - check the Meeting Policy settings ( Teams admin console -> Meetings -> Meeting Policies)
You can have these settings releated with meeting policies - Allow IP videos, allow remove sharing, giving controls to others, allow meet now in private meetings etc..
4. Are you going to allow anonymous users to join meetings ? - Teams admin console -> Meetings ->Meeting Settings
5. IM controls - Options available for you to control -> Teams admin console -> Messaging Policies
6. Additional Integration settings -> Teams admin console -> Teams setting - lock the unwanted options
revert if any additional details required in specific
Hi.. Please refer this for group creation restrictions..
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide
reset all.. you can easily manage from Teams admin console..
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide
reset all.. you can easily manage from Teams admin console..
ASKER
Thanks for these helpful posts which I will be considering this week.
Rajkumar Duraisamy - do you have any links or detailed documentation for how to do these things? Particularly interested in step 1 instructions, though not sure if this is a sensible thing to do or not.....?
One other potential strategy we came up with was whether instead of blocking the creation of groups (which might have other negative knock-on effects) was whether we could set notification up for when Teams Sharepoint sites are generated so that we can delete them and roll back the changes. Any thoughts about how we might achieve that?
Jon
Rajkumar Duraisamy - do you have any links or detailed documentation for how to do these things? Particularly interested in step 1 instructions, though not sure if this is a sensible thing to do or not.....?
One other potential strategy we came up with was whether instead of blocking the creation of groups (which might have other negative knock-on effects) was whether we could set notification up for when Teams Sharepoint sites are generated so that we can delete them and roll back the changes. Any thoughts about how we might achieve that?
Jon
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(sorry edited and reposted so appreciate your answer already to my first point - any thoughts on the monitoring question?)
You can schedule a script to run the below on daily basis and monitor the teams created based on creation time.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Export-Teams-Information-2ea6b3db
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Export-Teams-Information-2ea6b3db
ASKER
Thanks. I'll give those suggestions a try and let you know how I get on.
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