 Information sharing is the key to making a successful team. And Microsoft Teams has multiple methods in order to make information sharing as easy as possible across all of your work teams. There are times, however, when information sharing is not such a good thing. Maybe there's sensitive information that only a select few members of the team need to know. Maybe it has to do with legal or financial matters that the rest of the team doesn't need to know about. But now with private channels, you now have a place to store that information within your team. To create a private channel, make sure you're the owner or have permissions to that channel and when you hover your mouse over the team name, you'll see ellipses. Click add channel and then under the privacy section, select private. On the next screen, you can add members to the channel. When complete, you can see the private channel appear in your team channel list. You can distinguish between a normal channel and a private channel simply by looking at the lock icon. If it has a lock icon, it means it's private. If you're new to Microsoft Teams and need a little help understanding the basics, we do offer a free course called Teams Essentials. It's available at our website at protectedtrust.com but we'll also leave a link for you below in the description.