Managing Teams' channels and private channel creation

In this section, we're going to cover management of Teams channels, but also policies that enable or disable your team owners' ability to create private channels.

Microsoft Teams channels allow for a team's separation of conversations and collaboration activities by task, subgroup, product, topic, and so on. Each team channel has a Files tab that mirrors a folder sharing the channel's name in a document library on the team's affiliated SharePoint Online site collection. If you had six channels in a team, there would be six folders in the affiliated site's document library, for example.

Each channel always has its own conversation thread, its own unique set of tabs along the top, and some channels can also be private, with a unique subset of members from the parent team.

To see all the channels in an existing team via the client, look in the Team's settings (click the ellipsis next...