Forum Discussion
Disable Group Chats
- Hi hakannorberg
Private chat can be disabled in the messaging policy in the Teams admin centre - however this is for all private chats - 1:1 and group private chats.
I would recommend raising a uservoice here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
just updating the user voice link, I found this one with 301 votes at the time of writing https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/f8391a82-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827b493
Sure, I agree. I used to be a secondary school teacher so believe in the whole chabang - information barriers, stream controls for video. All of it. They should be safe spaces.
In terms of the chat, did you consider turning private chat off in the messaging policy, this could be used with policy packages for students. If that is too far you could look at a few things like supervised chat, channel moderation where only moderators can post in channels and restrict things like Gifs in the messaging policies.
Also, if you don't want kids accessing accounts outside of school, you should look to implement a conditional access policy where they can only access Microsoft 365 services from within your network. That could help as they wouldn't be able to access it off premises.
Best, Chris
- Confused why you are redirecting people to UserVoice - isnt this very platform meant to be the replacement for UserVoice?
I fully agree with original poster - Teams admin should give us the ability to create a policy that disables somebody's ability to create group chats but still do 1:1 chats.That comment was from 2020, about 2 and a half years ago
The new feedback portal is here: Microsoft Teams · Community. There is nothing which was raised previously after advising so if you would like to see it please raise this on feedback.
Best, Chris
- I raised a new feedback here along the lines of the original request, where we want to leave 1:1 chats available, but just disable ability to create/participate in GROUP chats:
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/acf1578d-be1d-ed11-a81b-6045bd7d68ae
