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Where is disable private chat?
Hi there,
I was just wondering if anyone knows where the option to disable private chat in teams is. It used to be in the Messaging options of teams under the old admin as shown below.
When I go into the old admin the settings are greyed out and directs me to go to the new admin to find them, but I cannot find the option to turn private chat off. We are a school and the powers that be do not want students being able to chat privately with teachers or their peers.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards
Darren
- It’s going to be under messaging policies now under the newish Teams Admin center. You can apply policies to students and then chat off there in that policy.
Info about messaging policies here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/messaging-policies-in-teams
You basically turn off the chat option.
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darren_murdoch how do you get there.
devaughn1335 that location no longer exists, its replaced by the Teams admin center.
Hi ,
The private chat policy moved to >meeting policy< in the new admin portal.
go to meeting policy > allow chat in meeting
that will edit the private chat
while the >chat< policy in the "messaging policy" will affect the general chat tab in the meeting.
Hope it will help you
Let me know if this helps: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/skypehybridguy/2017/08/24/microsoft-teams-disable-private-chat-how-to/levonclark that is the old admin center. The new one just has the Chat option under messaging policies. I am about to test it to see if it disables all chat or just private chat, as we still want students to be able to converse with each other through the conversations.
Chat is only private chat, but keep in mind, this will effect the ability to chat in Meetings as well. At least teh ability to go to your chat tab to participate in chat history / running chat of a meeting since you will not have a chat tab once turning this off.
Also when you set this, it will take some time to take effect, up to a few hours possibly.
levonclark That setting no longer exists. It now just exists in messaging policy, called "chat", which appears to disable all chat, not just private chat. We need a way to disable only private chat.
- Yes it will disable only chat tab. However you should consider using upgrade mode Skype with collaboration. This should disable chat for your users and allow teams. Keeping everything but the teams collaboration pieces in Skype.
- It’s going to be under messaging policies now under the newish Teams Admin center. You can apply policies to students and then chat off there in that policy.
Info about messaging policies here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/messaging-policies-in-teams
You basically turn off the chat option.ChrisWebbTech There's a "Chat" option now in messaging policies. Does that disable just private chat or all chat including chat in channels? In our case, for now, we want Skype to continue to remain our chat / meeting service but provide persistent group chat in Teams.
