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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.

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. "Enterprise settings" in drop-down menu for profile photo on GitHub Enterprise Server

  2. In the enterprise sidebar, click Policies. Policies tab in the enterprise account sidebar

  3. In the left sidebar, click Teams. Teams tab in the enterprise sidebar

  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. Link to view the current policy configuration for organizations in the business

  5. Under "Team discussions", use the drop-down menu and choose a policy. Drop-down menu with team discussion policy options