Configuring classifications, expiration policies, and naming policies for Microsoft 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams

In this section, you will learn about the classification feature, expiration policies, and naming policies, and how these three features may be configured using the Microsoft 365 groups that underpin Microsoft Teams. We will start with the group classification feature.

Configuring group classification

The group classification feature enables users who can create Microsoft 365 groups to create visual descriptions (much like labels) that can provide descriptive information about the group.

Note

Microsoft now recommends using sensitivity labels in conjunction with Microsoft 365 groups in preference over group classification. However, as the exam outline has not been changed to reflect this at the time of writing, we will focus on the classification feature in this section. Links to sensitivity labeling concerning Microsoft 365 will be included in the Further reading...