Profanity filters in Teams
I see there are content filters for GIPH images but not for text, looking for something that can filter profanity from conversations.

23 comments
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Jessie commented
For anyone that might be wondering about this, there is no quick way to do this, however I was able to figure out that you can put a policy in place under Office365 security and compliance (if you have admin access) > data loss prevention> policy, you can upload a list of words that you want blocked. It sure is a pain but its worth it, and you can set notifications to go to your admin team that can see the message (message is automatically blocked for all students so nobody will see what the person tried to type).
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Anonymous commented
The ability to filter profanity is 100% necessary in the education field. I would say it is more needed in that license than, in any other license and not including it is price gouging the education field that is already under increasingly tight budgets.
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Anonymous commented
This would be an important feature with the number of students now on teams
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Anonymous commented
I think MS do not understand the frustation of SP's that support the Education. We've implemented the profanity filter. Problem, the swearing still pops-up and shows eventually after view minutes blocked. So come on MS get your stuff together and hear what we asking.
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Cameron commented
Can we also get Profanity filters in the Voicemail transcription (https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/289138-office-365-security-compliance/suggestions/40467697-allow-option-to-exclude-swear-words-being-transcri)? Voicemail is sending messages with profanity that didn't happen.
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Wesley Duggan commented
Also in an EDU enviroment that needs some sort of profanity filtering option on the A1 license. E5 is far too costly for a school to comply with regulations around minors and what they can and can not be exposed to.
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Anonymous commented
Important requirement for Teams EDU!
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Anonymous commented
Yes please!! This is a great idea.
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Anonymous commented
Isn't high time profanity filter was activated?
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Shaun Wells commented
Profanity check or some sort of dictionary check would be useful.
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Joe Winstanley commented
Vital for education. Please add to A1,3,&5 licenses.
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Timothy Malan commented
Have my upvote! Going to make a video about this.
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Anonymous commented
Vote this up, very important be able to monitor was is said in 365 Business accounts.
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Anonymous commented
The education is most in need of this yet they add it only to E5 licensing 🤦🏻♂️ I dare one of Microfost to come and watch 3000 kids using teams and then they will understand why They need to include this! I really cant believe enterprise license have this and not educational. License.....
I bet the 2000 users in the bank “swear” daily 😂🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
EPIC FAIL once again been let down by MS
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Jessie commented
We are in the same boat, even with the setting turned to strict when they are in a video meeting and they are chatting, they can put whatever they want. If Microsoft wants the school to continue using this platform, they have to come up with a blocking option, it does no good to flag it, i mean it helps but we need to block.
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Tim Scrivin commented
Certainly agree there should be some word filtering in Teams, with schools wanting to press on to a educational version of O365 this is a must.
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Dave Girardin commented
We need a way to filter words as well.
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Loyal Anderson commented
We need to have a list or import a list of inappropriate words and phrases to be blocked. This can be the same sort of list I can set up in Rules under Exchange admin center in 365
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Anonymous commented
In a private conversation, you can turn Strict mode on, in the Settings. But in a Genreal conversation you cannot do this currently. Anyone on Microsoft working on this?
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[Deleted User] commented
Hi guys any further update on this? Im hoping that staff can have a play with Teams before with a roll out in September 2018. But I cannot roll it out until the profanity filter is impleneted in conversations. Teachers have requested this as a must have feature. Quite rightly they say they dont have time to moderate a conversation. Thanks.