Understanding and implementing information barrier policies for Microsoft Teams
Information barriers can be configured in Microsoft 365 if you have departments or individuals that must be prevented from communicating with each other, or even prevented from finding each other in lookups.
To configure information barrier policies, we need to use PowerShell commands from the Microsoft 365 compliance center, and you must have one of the following Admin roles assigned to you:
- Global administrator
- Compliance administrator
In the following example, we will create two information barrier segments called Retail and Marketing. These segments will refer to the department field for all user objects to determine which users will be affected. We will then create an information barrier policy to prevent users in the Retail department from communicating with users in the Marketing department.
In order to configure information barriers for Microsoft Teams, we need to complete...