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Requesting best practice discussion on setting up Teams and Channels
Hello everyone! I'm interested in soliciting discussion on the best practices when setting up teams and channels inside of MS Teams. First, let me give you a bit of overview in our deployment...
If guest users simply need to access files, you could extend permissions to them to the underlying SharePoint folder associated with the Client Channel.
If guests need to participate via the Teams interface and also have access to Posts, Planner, etc you could make every Client Channel in the Team a Private Channel, then add guests to the Team overall and only to relevant Private Channel(s).
For the second option, it may not be ideal if you're already actively using a Team with Standard Channels, as they can't be converted to Private.
I'd be curious how others have handled this use case.
Hi Todd,
Microsoft is adding shared channels which are scheduled to be generally available shortly. This capability will allow you to collaborate with external users in a specific channel without giving them access to the entire team.
This article might be useful to give you a better idea about how to leverage shared channels for various use cases:
https://www.salestim.com/microsoft-teams-templates-with-shared-channels/
Microsoft is adding shared channels which are scheduled to be generally available shortly. This capability will allow you to collaborate with external users in a specific channel without giving them access to the entire team.
This article might be useful to give you a better idea about how to leverage shared channels for various use cases:
https://www.salestim.com/microsoft-teams-templates-with-shared-channels/