How to Manage Federal Taxpayer Information in Microsoft Teams

It’s not just the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or federal agencies, every state government has a department responsible for taxation or revenue.

The sensitivity levels of PII and FTI require that agencies are extremely diligent in the protection of the confidentiality of this information.

While Microsoft 365 is incredibly extensible and flexible, there are still certain settings, such as how you provision Groups, that follow a “one tenant, one rule,” architecture. As a result, the central state IT provider is often reluctant to put tighter restrictions on other agencies to support one agency’s use case and the agency handling the sensitive data must find alternative means for collaboration.