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Enforcing team policies in your enterprise

You can enforce policies for teams in your enterprise's organizations, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can enforce policies for teams in an enterprise.

In this article

About policies for teams in your enterprise

You can enforce policies to control how members of your enterprise on GitHub Enterprise Server manage teams. You can also allow organization owners to manage policies for teams. For more information, see About teams.

Enforcing a policy for team discussions

Across all organizations owned by your enterprise, you can enable or disable team discussions, or allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level. For more information, see About team discussions.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile photo, then click Enterprise settings.

    Screenshot of the drop-down menu that appears when you click the profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server. The "Enterprise settings" option is highlighted in a dark orange outline.

  2. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.

  3. Under " Policies", click Teams.

  4. Under "Team discussions", review the information about changing the setting. Optionally, to view the current configuration for all organizations in the enterprise account before you change the setting, click View your organizations' current configurations.

    Screenshot of a policy in the enterprise settings. A link, labeled "View your organizations' current configurations", is highlighted with an orange outline.

  5. Under "Team discussions", select the dropdown menu and click a policy.