7 tips for safe online meetings and collaboration with Microsoft Teams

Control who can join your Microsoft Teams meetings directly and present.
Meeting organizers can change participant settings for a specific meeting through the Meeting options web page. Meeting organizers can determine settings like who needs to be admitted to the meeting and who can bypass the lobby to join it directly. Additionally, you can decide which participants are able to join with the presenter role to present out content and who should join as standard attendees.

Minimize Teams meeting disruptions by muting individual or all meeting attendees
To prevent meeting disruptions, intentional or accidental, as a meeting organizer you have the ability to mute individual attendees or all meeting attendees. If an attendee happens to leave their microphone unmuted while being away, you can easily mute that participant from the participant pane.

End your Teams meeting for everyone in attendance at once
As the meeting organizer, sometimes the meeting needs to end at your discretion without allowing participants to remain. Once a meeting has wrapped up, instead of clicking Leave, select the dropdown located next to it and click End Meeting.

Create a team with increased security
If any of the content stored or discussed within the team may be considered business sensitive, such as financial details or classified project information, it’s best practice to apply increased protections to that team to ensure the content security. This can be accomplished by creating a new team and applying an IT-created sensitivity label. When applying a sensitivity label to your team, it automatically applies the configured protections to the team.

Create a private channel
Sometimes you need to share sensitive information within a team to specified team members only, such as project details or strategic planning, that does not require global team protection. Rather than creating a new team, you can create a private channel within an existing team that is only accessible to designated members.

Help protect sensitive data in Teams
Microsoft Teams supports data protection policies to help protect sensitive information from being accidentally or inadvertently shared. When collaborating in a Teams 1:1 or channel chat, you may have a message return as blocked if that message contains information that meets your organization’s sensitive information policy.