MS-700 Manage Teams, Channels, Chats, and Apps Practice Question
You are the Teams administrator for a healthcare company. A compliance officer must be able to search all one-on-one chats and channel conversations for a specific patient identifier across the tenant, including messages sent by users who have since left the company. What should you do?
⚠ Common exam trap
The trap here is assuming that an administrative Teams role or the Teams client search can surface other users' conversation content, when content search requires compliance tooling.
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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Assign the compliance officer the eDiscovery Manager role and use Microsoft Purview eDiscovery to search Teams content.
Tenant-wide content search of Teams chats and channel messages is performed through Microsoft Purview eDiscovery, which can reach messages from departed employees because the data is retained in the associated mailboxes and SharePoint sites. The eDiscovery Manager role supplies the necessary permissions to create cases, place custodians on hold, and run searches.
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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Assign the compliance officer the Teams Communications Administrator role and enable recording for all meetings.
Why it's wrong here
The Teams Communications Administrator role governs calling and meeting features such as voice routing and phone numbers, and meeting recording captures only meeting audio and video, not one-on-one chats or channel conversations. This combination would neither grant content search rights nor include the text messages the compliance officer must review.
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Assign the compliance officer the Teams Administrator role and have them run a search in the Teams client.
Why it's wrong here
The Teams Administrator role manages Teams configuration but does not grant the ability to search message content across the tenant, and the Teams client search only returns messages the signed-in user can already access. It would not surface conversations belonging to other users or to departed employees, so it cannot satisfy the compliance search requirement.
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Assign the compliance officer the Global Reader role and export the Teams audit log for the past 90 days.
Why it's wrong here
Global Reader provides read-only visibility into administrative configuration, not message content, and the Teams audit log records events such as message edits and deletions rather than the text of conversations. Audit data also has a finite retention window, so it cannot reliably locate a patient identifier in historical chats, especially those of departed users.
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Assign the compliance officer the eDiscovery Manager role and use Microsoft Purview eDiscovery to search Teams content.
Why this is correct
Microsoft Purview eDiscovery searches Teams chat and channel content by placing custodians and data sources on hold or in scope, and it can retrieve messages authored by former employees because the data resides in the underlying mailboxes and SharePoint sites. Granting the eDiscovery Manager role gives the officer the permissions needed to create and run these searches tenant-wide.
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