Microsoft is unlocking the "Full Potential" of Private Channels in Microsoft Teams: What You Need to Know

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It has been a while since I posted something just about a Microsoft Teams update, as a lot have been Copilot in Teams to be honest. But here is a real Microsoft Teams update I think is worth knowing about, and it involves Security and Compliance as well. Microsoft is rolling out a "major" update to private channels in Teams, starting in late September 2025 and continuing through mid-December. This biggest change in this update is a shift in how private channel data is stored from individual user mailboxes to a dedicated channel mailbox. Not only will this simplifie compliance management, it will also and align private channels with shared channels, making governance and experience more consistent across Teams. This update promises to increase the support up to 1000 channels per team and 5000 members per channel, removing previous limitations. Teams will also allow meetings to be scheduled directly within private channels, enhancing collaboration.  For organizations using Micr...

Two more examples for get-userandpolicy

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I just wanted to show to more examples of how I use the get-userandpolicy script.

In my previous post I showed how to identify specific policies and their associated users. There is another switch included in the script, and that is the "allpolicy" switch. This switch will list a complete set of policies a user object can be assigned to.


Combining the "allpolicy" and "listpolicy" can give you a complete overview over all your policies and how they are used. Be cautious when running this in a large deployment, as it can take some time to count the number of users of each policy (as it is currently querying using the "get-csuser" command for each policy count).


The script can be downloaded here: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/Get-UserandPolicy-2b8f9873