Preventing Permanent Deletion of Private Chats in Microsoft Teams
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Your company has a Microsoft 365 subscription.
You need to prevent a user named User1 from permanently deleting private chats in Microsoft Teams.
Solution: You create an In-Place Hold for the Microsoft SharePoint site used by Microsoft Teams.
Does this meet the goal?
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A. B.B.
The proposed solution of creating an In-Place Hold for the Microsoft SharePoint site used by Microsoft Teams does not meet the stated goal of preventing a user named User1 from permanently deleting private chats in Microsoft Teams. Therefore, the correct answer is B. No.
An In-Place Hold is a feature in Microsoft 365 that helps organizations to preserve mailbox content from being permanently deleted or edited. It is typically used to comply with regulatory or legal requirements for preserving data. However, an In-Place Hold does not prevent a user from deleting data. Instead, it retains a copy of the data that has been deleted or modified, so that it can be recovered or reviewed if needed.
In the case of private chats in Microsoft Teams, creating an In-Place Hold for the SharePoint site used by Teams would not prevent User1 from deleting the chats. Private chats in Teams are not stored in SharePoint, but rather in Exchange Online mailboxes. Therefore, to prevent User1 from permanently deleting private chats in Teams, a different solution is required.
One possible solution would be to assign User1 the appropriate Microsoft Teams messaging policy that limits their ability to delete messages. Microsoft Teams messaging policies allow administrators to control various messaging settings for users, including message deletion. By setting a messaging policy that prevents User1 from deleting private chats, their ability to permanently delete messages in Teams will be restricted.
Another possible solution would be to use retention policies to control how long Teams chat messages are retained. Retention policies can be applied to Teams chat messages to automatically delete or retain them after a certain period. By configuring a retention policy to retain Teams chat messages for a longer period, the risk of User1 permanently deleting chats will be reduced.
