Preventing students in a trust from emailing, teams chatting across different schools

[gsk]

Hi All,

 

I was wondering whether there's a consensus in how Trusts are managing the cross-school risks of students communicating between themselves.

 

For emails - are people doing scoped Address Book Policies as well as transport rules?

 

For Teams, do you just disable chat for students or do you use Information Barriers in entra?

 

Thanks,

[thimon]

For Junior school aged students, we have a whitelist of email domains that can only be accepted. 

 

For Teams, only staff can initiate group chats with students. Students cannot create their own chats. 

 

We've blocked the various domains in our internet filtering system that Microsoft uses for personal Microsoft accounts to work, as we found students were signing into Teams with their own personal accounts to chat to themselves. Below URLs blocked for that to work:

account.live.com    
client-s.gateway.messenger.live.com    
consumer.events.data.microsoft.com    
login.live.com    
presence.teams.live.com    
teams.live.com