Creating a Teams policy

Teams policies provide the ability to assign certain users a variant of the default/global policy applied to most users. For example, you may adjust the default policy to disallow private channel creation and then create a custom Teams policy to allow only certain members to create private channels. In this recipe, we're going to prevent a certain user (or several) from creating private channels in Teams.

Getting ready

You must be a global or Teams administrator to complete the steps in this recipe.

How to do it…

1. Go to the Microsoft Teams admin center at https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/.
2. Select Teams | Teams policies:

   Figure 9.8 – The Teams policies link in the left-hand navigation menu of the Microsoft Teams admin center

3. Click + Add.
4. Name and describe the policy and choose whether users to whom this policy applies should be permitted to discover private teams and create private channels:

   Figure 9.9 – The...