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Where is disable private chat?
- 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.
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.
This is so frustrating Chris. We want to be able to chat with our student privately and on the gen
eral page but we do not want pupils to chat amongst themselves as this is prone to abuse. What can we do?
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.
ChrisWebbTech Hi Chris, I tried the disabling chat in messaging policies but the chat tab was still there for the user. While they had no-one in their list, they could still go to Contacts and add a group to their favorites and then add a contact that way. The upgrade to skype policy you were talking about. Where can I find that?
Darren
