What is the definitive relationship between settings and policies in Microsoft Teams?

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I am trying to define the relationship between settings and policies in Teams, specifically:

  • Teams admin center org-wide settings
  • Teams admin center global policies
  • Teams admin center custom policies
  • Teams client team settings

I have come up with the following statements, but would appreciate confirmation, correction or any further insight.

  1. Org-wide settings in the admin center override global and custom policies, however custom policies, when applied to a user, override global policies for that user.

  2. Global or custom policies override default Owner permissions (eg the ability to upload custom apps).

  3. Global or custom policies override Team Settings defined in the Teams client.

  4. (Not sure if Team settings in the admin area, override Team settings in the client? See images 1 and 2 below)

For reference only, below are screenshots of related areas in the Teams admin center and Teams client > team settings:

  • Teams client > Team > Manage team > Settings
  • Teams admin center > Teams > Manage teams > Team > Edit
  • Teams admin center > Teams apps > Manage apps > Org-wide app settings
  • Teams admin center > Teams apps > Permission policies > Global policy
  • Teams admin center > Teams apps > Setup policies > Global policy
  • Teams admin center > Org-wide settings > Guest access

Teams client > Team > Manage team > Settings

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Teams admin center > Teams > Manage teams > Team > Edit

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Teams admin center > Teams apps > Manage apps > Org-wide app settings

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Teams admin center > Teams apps > Permission policies > Global policy

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Teams admin center > Teams apps > Setup policies > Global policy

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Teams admin center > Org-wide settings > Guest access

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Related Links

These links contain related information, but it is dispersed amongst documents and, to my understanding , doesn't provide a memorable and succinct set of statements that would be helpful when administering Teams.

Manage Microsoft Teams settings for your organization

Assign policies to your users in Microsoft Teams

How custom app policies and settings work together

Which policy takes precedence?

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1 Answers

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settings you should consider user settings and Team settings. Team settings will be differ for each team, user settings will be fixed and applied.

account settings-->admincenter-users

Team settings-->admincenter-Teams-team

org-wide settings-->admincenter-orgWideSettings

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remaining all are classified fine. Global and custom policies