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Iron Contributor

Dec 04, 2019

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Information Barriers in education

Hello, I hope this is the right place for this question. During Ignite I saw the prsentation of Information Barriers: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/information-bar...

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TonyRedmond
Dec 05, 2019
VasilMichev Well, Information Barriers replace Exchange Address Book Policies (when you create IB policies, Exchange generates new GALs etc. to match the IB policy restrictions). Also, SharePoint Online is due to respect IB policies to ensure that documents are shared only between users allowed to communicate.

See https://www.petri.com/controlling-communications-office365-information-barriers-part-1 (or read Office 365 for IT Pros...)

VasilMichev

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Dec 05, 2019

Well IB only applies to Teams currently, and in your case this is the workload you want to exclude, so it seems they are not a good match. Apart from them, you can use Exchange Address book policies, which can "hide" users from each other, but don't really stop them from communicating.

TonyRedmond
MVP
Dec 05, 2019
VasilMichev Well, Information Barriers replace Exchange Address Book Policies (when you create IB policies, Exchange generates new GALs etc. to match the IB policy restrictions). Also, SharePoint Online is due to respect IB policies to ensure that documents are shared only between users allowed to communicate.

See https://www.petri.com/controlling-communications-office365-information-barriers-part-1 (or read Office 365 for IT Pros...)
- Maurits Knoppert
  Iron Contributor
  Dec 10, 2019
  TonyRedmond VasilMichev
  
  Thank you both for your answers. I have read those blogposts. I thought maybe I was overlooking something. But that is not the case. So information barriers is not the answer for the problem I wrote in my openingspost.
  
  Maurits