Preventing Managers Team from Appearing in Suggested Teams List
Question
You work as a Systems Administrator for your company.
The company has a subscription to Microsoft 365
All users in your company have a Microsoft 365 E5 license.
The company has several departments.
You have configured a private team for each of the departments.
You configure an additional private team named Managers.
The Managers team will contain all departmental managers.
You need to ensure that the Managers team is not viewable in the Suggested Teams list.
What should you do?
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A. B. C. D.C.
The correct answer is C. Modify the Team discovery options for the Managers team.
Explanation: Microsoft Teams has a feature called "Suggested Teams", which recommends teams to users based on their activity and membership. By default, all newly created teams are visible in the Suggested Teams list. However, there may be situations where you want to hide a particular team from this list, for example, to keep it private or to reduce clutter.
To hide a team from the Suggested Teams list, you need to modify its Team discovery options. Here's how you can do it for the Managers team:
Open the Teams desktop or web app and go to the Managers team.
Click on the three dots (ellipsis) next to the team name and select "Manage team".
In the Manage team pane, go to the Settings tab.
Under the Team discovery section, select the "Hidden" option.
Click on the "Save" button to apply the changes.
Note that hiding a team from the Suggested Teams list does not affect its visibility to its members. They can still access the team and its content as usual.
Answer A, modifying the member permissions for the Managers team, is not relevant to the question. It would allow you to control who can access the team and what actions they can perform, but it does not affect the team's visibility in the Suggested Teams list.
Answer B, configuring a new app permission policy, is also not relevant to the question. App permission policies are used to control which apps can be used by users in Teams, but they do not affect the team's visibility in the Suggested Teams list.
Answer D, selecting the Hide option for the Managers team, is a valid option, but it is not the most precise one. The Hide option is a quick way to hide a team from the user's Teams list altogether, not just from the Suggested Teams list. This means that the Managers team would not be visible to its members unless they search for it explicitly. If you only want to hide the team from the Suggested Teams list while keeping it visible to its members, modifying the Team discovery options is a better approach.
