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Stop users from sending chat to a specific group in Teams
cyberserge There's not a technical control to do that, you can segment the address book or use Information Barriers but it would also block email.
It's really a question of establishing a company culture where this isn't a concern, I've worked with lots of large organisations and never seen a real issue with this.
StevenC365 I work for a large University. We do not want the student population to direct message or call certain executive leadership. If this were only a corporate environment, I'd agree. But as you can imagine, with 95k active student accounts, students tend to be mischievous at times. Would the IB help?
Keith_Honaker there's a feature specifically for large educational institutions called Supervised Chats that will perhaps be your best bet Use supervised chats - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn
Make your students Restricted, your teaching staff Full and your Exec Limited. Then staff and Exec can talk freely, but students can't start conversations with Exec.
