Assigning Messaging policies to groups in MS Teams

[wickit]

All I want to do is allow staff to use personal chats, but turn it off for all the student.

Has anyone managed to do this, it seems crazy for this feature to be missing!!

Edited June 10, 2019 by wickit

[Joko]

I am looking at doing this now. Did you manage to find the answer?

 

I believe you have to change these in the Messaging Policy within the new Teams settings under the admin portal. I have turned the chat off for a specific user and waiting for it to replicate.

[robyholmes]

You need to create a policy then apply it to users. You can use Powershell but I found it difficult so I found you can select 50 users at a time in the Admin portal and set the policy. Select all only does 25.

[Joko]

You need to create a policy then apply it to users. You can use Powershell but I found it difficult so I found you can select 50 users at a time in the Admin portal and set the policy. Select all only does 25.

 

Yeah this is what i'm testing today. I have found a script online that adds users via a Dlist which seems to be working.

 

Really nice that M$ thought about doing this in the GUI to make it easier. /s

[CHiLL]

I have a similar thing. We don't want to disable Teams for students completely - we just want to stop them from being able to create groups. So staff can create groups and add students, and students can participate - but student's can't create groups for themselves and other students. Therefore we can't just remove the Teams license from student's accounts in Office 365.

 

We have raised this with Microsoft through Office 365 support and they've been working on it for weeks now, with no resolution. One issue appears to stem around the fact that they would use a GAL to restrict this - however we already have a GAL in place to prevent students from searching for staff in the address book.

[mburland]

Hi! Just wondering if Microsoft ever came up with a solution for you? Anything you can share here?