Teams Settings by User/ License Type

[woody]

Hi all

 

I had Teams settings nicely configured for staff and students here:

 

Office 365 Admin Center > Settings > Services and Add-ins > Microsoft Teams > Settings by user/license type.

 

Here you could select license type such as 'Education - Faculty' and 'Education - Student' and then turn off things such as private chat.

 

Now when you go here, you are told that 'Messaging settings have moved to the new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business admin center.' Ok so I head over to that and start investigating.

 

It appears that now you set up policies for messaging settings and that there are already some policies created in there, including Faculty and Student ones which appear to be a migration of the original settings I set up. The problem is, these policies are not applied to any of the staff or students! All the users are set to get the Global policies which in my tenancy by default where a lot more open. I tested logging onto Teams as a student and I could private message, call, the whole shebang!

 

Thankfully although students can access teams, we are not using it in anger so now to frantically change the default global policies. However, I have made a change pretty much turning everything off in the global policy but this hasn't applied as of yet (2 hours later) on my own Teams account. What am I missing?

 

Thank you MS for doing the migration and not retaining very important settings in Teams particularly for Students!

[woody]

UPDATE:

 

The changes I made to the Global policy has not taken effect over the weekend. So at least it works as it should. Now to create a policy for staff and manually add staff accounts to it!

[PD1279]

Hi, has "now" taken effect or "not" taken as you have written as about to start settings these up here ?

[woody]

Oh yes, not the best typo is it?

 

I meant to say 'now' as in it has taken effect over the weekend! Thanks for spotting that one!

[PD1279]

OK, got me worried then, as that was plan for today, so takes a while to apply, at least I know that instead of worrying what I had missed.

Think it might be a case of set it all today and then check tomorrow (day after).

[robyholmes]

Has anyone managed to set policies based on groups? Not finding anyway of doing this and I don't want to have to change the policy on each staff member and any future staff members.

[woody]

Correct, there is no way to set a policy using groups. I had to do it with powershell.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/grant-csteamsmessagingpolicy?view=skype-ps