Teams for Education Policy Wizard broke my chat

[SimonWindisch]

Hi all,

 

Firstly, I'm not an expert, so please be gentle with me...

 

I logged onto Teams admin, and it offered me a chance to "easily apply policies for a safe learning environment"

 

I chose

1. Select your institution type = Primary or Secondary,

2. Select your educators and staff group =

3. Review and apply your selections = Apply

4. The action failed (!!!)

 

What it seems to have done is put all pupils into a Messaging Policy with most chat setting turned off, and was trying to put all staff into a Messaging Policy group called "Primary or Secondary Educators and Staff - Messaging", but it failed. After this, chat was turned off for staff.

 

My fix was the following Powershell script

 

$groupName="" 
$Userlist = Get-AzureADGroupMember -ObjectId (Get-AzureADGroup | Where { $_.DisplayName -eq $groupName }).ObjectId | Select UserPrincipalName 

foreach($line in $Userlist)
{
   $userId = $line.UserPrincipalName
   Write-Host $userId
   Grant-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy -PolicyName "Primary or Secondary Educators and Staff - Messaging" -Identity $userId

}

[mullet_man]

This happened to me! No idea why I went ahead with the wizard but did and when it failed I didn’t think it would have made any changes as it failed.

 

I also found we lost the ability to chat externally as well so worth checking that for you.

 

Not sure if it’s related but I can’t add or even search for groups in Teams now so created a Team manually and unable to add a year group in.

[mullet_man]

Also look out for not being able to create Teams meetings. Just had to fix that one today.

 

It's made a right mess and just glad we are not big on Teams anymore as it would have been a disaster.