Introduction

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In this module, you'll practice how to meet specific business policies by creating relevant policies to disable GIFs, enable the lobby for all external users and disable desktop sharing remote control.

Note

This is a Guided Project module where you complete an end-to-end project by following step-by-step instructions.

Learning objectives

In this module, you'll practice how to:

  • Create a security group

  • Create and assign a messaging policy in the Teams admin center

  • Create a meeting policy in Teams admin center and assign it with PowerShell

Prerequisites

  • Access to an Office 365 tenant with Global Administrator and Teams Administrator roles

  • Access to Run PowerShell

  • Access to two Office 365 users, user1 and user2 to test policies.

Commonly, organizations will have specific policy requirements for a subset of users.

Microsoft Teams has policies to meet specific organizational requirements. In this scenario, you'll configure policies and assign them to a specific set of users to meet the business requirements.

Scenario

A large organization in financial services is adopting Microsoft Teams. Three departments; sales, accounting and legal, all have tax specialists in their departments.

The organization has specific requirements for tax specialist users before they're allowed to use Microsoft Teams. Tax specialists aren't allowed to use GIFs, they must ensure that all external users joining their meetings bypass the lobby and they can't offer or provide remote control of screen sharing.

It’s common that organizations will have specific policy requirements for a subset of users. In this scenario, we'll learn how to meet these needs.

What will we be doing?

  • Understand the organization's requirements and how they map to Teams Policies
  • Create a group for the tax specialists
  • Create and assign policies

What is the main goal?

By the end of this session, you'll have set and assigned policies to the tax specialists to enforce the organization's requirements.