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How to Make a Public Microsoft Teams Channel Private

change teams channel from private to public: Microsoft Teams is without a doubt one of the top collaboration platforms out there. Their users love hosting meetings and its deep integrations with other Microsoft products for intuitive collaboration.

One of the issues that usually comes around is that companies start using it without having a good notion of how MS Teams should be used. It’s very common to find what we call “team and channel cluttering” with too many teams and channels. A common question we get asked is how to convert public channels to private

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Use cases for converting a public channel to private

There are many reasons why someone would like to make a public channel become private. But usually, the case is when channels start storing more and more sensitive information in a way that could be risky for other users to see. In that case instead of deleting the information, companies want to restrict access to very specific users and keep the conversation history, files and other tabs there.

How to Change a Microsoft Teams Channel from public to private.

As many of the User Voice members understand, converting a public channel to private is not supported yet. The good news is that SphereShield Channel Management can do this very easily, and much more. It just takes a few steps. To Change a channel from private to public:

  1. In Microsoft Teams, create an empty channel with a very similar name
  2. Go to the Microsoft Teams management console
  3. Click ‘Manage’ next to the Team to present a list of Channels within the Team.
  4. Select the Channel you 
  5. Select the Microsoft Teams private channel you want to convert and click ‘Merge’ from the available actions
  6. Select the destination team and then the destination channel. In this case it will be the same team, and the channel you created in step 1 (You can easily do it for another team). After that click ‘Continue’

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And it’s done! You’ll see a confirmation message saying that it’s in process and could take a few minutes. You will be notified when the operation was completed. It can take around 20 minutes to complete (depending on how much content is within the channel you are moving)

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How to restrict and manage Webex Team Space creation for Governance needs – Case Study

How an important company using Webex Teams is currently benefiting from Sphereshield’s Ethical Wall when restricting space creationg

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Ethical Walls, more necessary than thought

Usually, Ethical Walls (Also known as “Chinese walls”, “Ethical firewall” , “Information barriers” or “firewall regulations”) are though to be usefull for a handfull of industries, specially the financial one. While this is partially true (financially regulated companies need by far ethical walls), a lot of everyday cases need for ethical walls.

Whether it’s preventing employees communicate with C-Level executives, restricting external communications or simply blocking file sharing for specific groups, the common thread for all of them are an effective ethical wall to apply corresponding policies

The Challenge: how to restrict creating spaces in Webex

An important company approached AGAT with the following challenge:

Their information governance manager wanted to restrict the ability to create Webex spaces for a specific group of privileged administrators.

The Solution: SphereShield for Webex Teams

To satisfy our customer’s need, AGAT provided SphereShield Ethical Wall for Webex Teams.

To explain how it worked in this case, the Ethical wall checks who did create a space, and if the user doesn’t correspond to the administrator group, the Ethical Wall blocks the user from adding anyone to that webex space.

This functionality is also present and built-in in SphereShield Ethical Wall for Microsoft Teams

For more information on this or any of our solutions Contact Us

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How to safely connect to Skype for Business using RSA security token

SkypeShield offers innovative security solution that allows users of RSA SecurityID and other secure tokens to safely connect to their organization’s Skype for Business server without using their  Active Directory (AD) credentials.

SkypeShield’s solution adds another secured authentication option, enabling strong mobile and external Skype for Business authentication for organizations with a network policy that requires Hardware One Time Password (OTP) or Two Factor Authentication (TFA).

Organizations that use OTP tokens, such as RSA SecurID Authenticator device, have a problem using them in conjunction with Skype for Business. The new solution enables therefore both mobile and desktop users to connect to Skype for Business using their RSA token while avoiding the usage of AD credentials and implementing TFA.

Moreover, SkypeShield can require the user to register in a self-service portal to further add security to the authentication process and make sure only registered devices can connect.

The device registration process is completed once and the user uses his RSA token to authenticate and enable Skype for Business connectivity thereafter.

“The market for security tokens is constantly growing, requiring organizations, that use Skype for Business to look for new security solutions,” said Guy Eldan, CEO of AGAT Software which developed SkypeShield. “After we launched a special solution for smart card mobile authentication, it was only natural to add another special solution for security tokens.”

SkypeShield’s solution does not require setting Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) and offers a complete user experience including both Skype for Business & Exchange information, which can be safely used from the external device.

It also addresses account lockout protection and other TFA software solutions for external Skype for Business clients.

A recent survey by research company Frost & Sullivan indicated that the global OTP market is growing at an annual rate of 7.5 percent and is expected to reach $1.2 billion by 2017.