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Summary and knowledge check

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Information barriers enable administrators to define policies to allow or prevent communications between groups of users in Microsoft Teams chats and channels. When information barrier policies are in place, people who should not communicate with other specific users will not be able to find, select, chat, or call those users. With information barriers, checks are in place to prevent unauthorized communication.

Now that you have completed this module, you should be able to:

• Describe how information barrier policies can help your organization maintain compliance with relevant industry standards and regulations, and avoid potential conflicts of interest.
• List the types of situations when information barriers would be applicable.
• Explain the process of creating an information barrier policy.
• Explain how to troubleshoot unexpected issues after information barriers are in place.

Check your knowledge

1.

The primary use case of information barriers is represented in which of the following statements?

An individual wants to keep their work private from the public.

A department is handling information that should not be shared with other groups or departments.

An organization wants to break down silos and allow searching across all business units.

2.

Instead of blocking communications between two segments, you decide you want to allow communications to occur between certain segments. What should you do?

Edit a policy

Edit a segment

Edit user account attributes

3.

Can you use address book policies and information barrier policies at the same time?

Yes

No

Only when address book policies were in place first

You must answer all questions before checking your work.

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