Planning and implementing organizational settings

There are several areas where Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online overlap from a configuration perspective. It’s important to understand the impact that SharePoint Online settings can have on Teams usage and vice versa.

Managing SharePoint Online tenant and site settings

SharePoint Online tenant settings are configured in the SharePoint admin center. There are three main areas where settings are configured, as highlighted in Figure 12.30:

Figure 12.30 – SharePoint Online admin center settings areas

The three core settings areas are the following:

• Policies
• Settings
• More features

Let’s quickly look at the settings located under each.

Policies

The policies area is used to manage tenant-wide controls, with regard to broad sharing controls and security or other access controls.

Sharing

The Sharing controls page has a myriad of settings, and it can...