Creating and managing messaging policies

Messaging policies allow Teams administrators to indicate which messaging features team owners and members are allowed to use. For example, you may wish to prevent the deletion of sent messages for a specific group of users—a messaging policy would allow you to do this.

By default, your organization has a global policy assigned to all users. This global policy can be modified, or you can create additional policies to assign to specific groups and users, leaving the global default policy in place for users to whom custom messaging policies won't apply.

Note

Each user in your organization can only have one messaging policy applied to them at any one time. This affects their experience in all teams uniformly and cannot differ per team.

Let's look more closely at how we create messaging policies.

Creating messaging policies

To create a new messaging policy, select Messaging policies from the left-hand menu of the...