MS-700 Manage Teams, Channels, Chats, and Apps Practice Question
You are a Teams administrator for Fabrikam. The company has a team named 'ProjectX' that includes internal employees and guest users from a partner company. You need to ensure that guest users can only see the 'General' channel and cannot see any other channels, including private channels. What should you do?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that guest permissions can hide specific channels from guests, but guest permissions only control actions, not visibility.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Convert all channels other than 'General' to private channels and do not add guests to those private channels.
To restrict guests to only the 'General' channel, you must ensure that all other channels are private and guests are not added to them. Private channels have a separate membership from the team, and guests must be explicitly added. Standard channels are visible to all team members, including guests. Therefore, converting other channels to private and excluding guests is the correct approach. This leverages the inherent behavior of private channels to limit visibility.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Create a new team for guests and move all standard channels except 'General' to that team.
Why it's wrong here
Creating a separate team for guests would not restrict them from seeing channels in the original team if they remain members. Moving channels is not supported; you can only create new channels in the new team. This approach does not meet the requirement and is operationally complex.
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Convert all channels other than 'General' to private channels and do not add guests to those private channels.
Why this is correct
Private channels are not visible to guests unless they are explicitly added as members. By converting standard channels to private and not adding guests, guests will only see the 'General' channel. This is the correct method to restrict guest visibility to specific channels in Teams.
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Modify the team's guest permissions to disable 'Allow guests to see other channels'.
Why it's wrong here
There is no such setting as 'Allow guests to see other channels' in team guest permissions. Guest permissions control actions like creating and deleting channels, not visibility of channels. Guests can see all standard channels by default. This setting does not exist, so this action would not achieve the goal.
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In the Teams admin center, create a new teams policy that disables 'Guest access to channels' and assign it to the team.
Why it's wrong here
Teams policies in the admin center do not have a setting to disable guest access to channels on a per-team basis. Guest access is controlled at the tenant level and per-team via guest permissions. This policy does not exist, so it would not work.
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