Team Policy Precedence

Question

When two distinct companies use Microsoft Teams and they have perhaps conflicting policies in place what determines which ones work. For instance, today on of the VPs was in a meeting with a customer and the customer didn't have the Chat feature. But the VP in question is a Meeting Policy enabled where the External meeting chat is enabled under Meeting Engagement. I obviously have no idea what their policy looks like but if they had that same setting turned off would it disable the Chat on their side?

Answer 1

Hi @Brian Gawith

If the meeting you are participating in is hosted by another organization, whether you can chat in the meeting depends on the policy settings of the other meeting organizer.

"External meeting chat", when this is turned on, people can read or write messages in external meeting chats from untrusted organizations. Note that this policy is intended for untrusted organizations.

If both organizations have configured a two-way trust relationship in external access, your users can speak in the meeting chat as long as the other organizer has enabled the Meeting chat function.

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