Worth Reading – Beyond Chat: The Hidden Dominoes When You Create a Microsoft Team
I commented on this article that I would like to make it required reading for every person who asks me why they can’t just create their own Microsoft Teams or SharePoint site:
As a Microsoft Teams admin, it’s easy to think your job is all about managing channels, permissions, and maybe the odd notification setting. But the reality is far more complex. When you create a new Team, you’re not just spinning up a chat space—you’re setting off a hidden chain reaction across the entire Microsoft 365 collaboration stack setup. This behind-the-scenes activity is what makes Teams so powerful, but also so tricky to manage.
Everything about Teams—security, retention, eDiscovery, privacy, and so on— starts with understanding the data involved. To understand the data involved, you need to be familiar with all the details of this chain reaction. You’re not protecting and investigating data in a Teams channel; you’re dealing with data in Exchange, SharePoint, and potentially in various other locations, depending on the apps used in the channel.
If you’re looking at dealing with Teams data, you should take a look. If you are trying to manage eDiscovery in M365, consider subscribing to my newsletter.
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