MC178666 – New Feature: Manage discovery of private teams in Microsoft Teams (archived)

Product:

Teams

Platform:

Education, Online, US Instances, Web, World tenant

Status:

Cancelled

Change type:

Links:

44370

Details:

Admins and team owners can control whether private teams can be discovered by Microsoft Teams users in your organization. When a private team is discoverable, it shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. This makes it easy for users to search for and find the private teams that they want to join. Users can request to join a private team which a team owner can then approve or deny.
We’re introducing a new per team setting that determines whether a team shows up in search results and is included in suggestions in the team gallery alongside public teams in Teams. Team owners can set the discovery setting for a private team in the team settings and through create team dialog during creation and admins can do so by using PowerShell. As an admin, you can also control which users in your organization are allowed to discover private teams (for which team discovery setting is enabled) by assigning user level policies. For a given team to be discoverable for a given user, that team’s setting would need to be set to be discoverable and discovery would need to be enabled for the user through policy.
All existing teams created prior to roll out will remain non-discoverable unless the setting is explicitly changed by team owners or admins after the roll out.

Team owners will get an option to review the discoverability setting for the teams they own and, if needed, update it
Any team created after the roll out will have the team discovery setting set as discoverable by default. When a team owner creates a private team, they can change this setting.
By default, user policy AllowPrivateTeamDiscovery will be set to true for all users in an organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 'https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=44370'>44370.
This feature is scheduled to roll out in early June, 2019.

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Release Phase:
General Availability

Created:
2019-04-30

updated:
2019-05-20