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Disable Group Chats
Hi,
Is it possible to prevent users to start group chats, i.e. it should be possible to chat one-to-one but not invite several users in a group chatt? All group conversations shall be carried out in specific team channels, but not in the chat.
- Hi hakannorberg
Private chat can be disabled in the messaging policy in the Teams admin centre - however this is for all private chats - 1:1 and group private chats.
I would recommend raising a uservoice here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
hakannorberg the whole group can send message, except me, though the chat admin shows everything is normal, no restriction to my account, that's so weird, anyone can help?
- Microsoft support is only PRO at creating new user voice platform every 2~3 years, hopefully we can breathe until day coming, policy to block group chat and enable 1:1 chat, maybe at year 2040 or 2050
- Hi hakannorberg
Private chat can be disabled in the messaging policy in the Teams admin centre - however this is for all private chats - 1:1 and group private chats.
I would recommend raising a uservoice here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chrisjust updating the user voice link, I found this one with 301 votes at the time of writing Enable Option to disable Chat within Teams / Microsoft Classroom. · Community
Sure, I agree. I used to be a secondary school teacher so believe in the whole chabang - information barriers, stream controls for video. All of it. They should be safe spaces.
In terms of the chat, did you consider turning private chat off in the messaging policy, this could be used with policy packages for students. If that is too far you could look at a few things like supervised chat, channel moderation where only moderators can post in channels and restrict things like Gifs in the messaging policies.
Also, if you don't want kids accessing accounts outside of school, you should look to implement a conditional access policy where they can only access Microsoft 365 services from within your network. That could help as they wouldn't be able to access it off premises.
Best, Chris
