FAQs
What is Microsoft Teams?
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How can I learn more about the privacy and security of Teams?
- Microsoft's Teams security guide
- Microsoft's privacy guide
- Secretariat privacy resources
- Secretariat Privacy and Remote Meetings guidelines
*Phone numbers of users who dial-in to Teams meetings are displayed to all meeting attendees
Can I invite external users to my team?
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What is the data retention policy for Teams?
- Private and group chat messages in Microsoft Teams will be deleted one year after the message is sent or received and will not be recoverable.
- For example, chat messages sent or received on or before June 1, 2020 would be deleted.
- Links to files shared in private or group chats will also be removed from the conversation at the one-year mark; however, files will still be accessible in the MS OneDrive of the original sender.
- An automatically generated message stating "We've deleted older messages due to your organization's retention policy" will appear at the top of chat windows as older chats are deleted.
- Other Teams data will persist as long as the Team exists (i.e., channel chat messages will persist for three years.
- Files currently have no expiry.
- All Teams data would be deleted if the entire Team was deleted).Links to files shared in private or group chats will also be removed from the conversation at the one-year mark; however, files will still be accessible in the MS OneDrive of the original sender.
Aren't the existing tools enough?
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