You are a Workspace Admin in your organization's Slack Pro instance. Your colleague notifies you that a user who was recently terminated is still active on Slack and causing a disturbance in the #general channel. Usually employees who are terminated are automatically deprovisioned in Slack through the SCIM API.
After investigating, you discover that your identity provider (IdP), Okta, is down. Which immediate steps should you take to address the issue?
Brian, an HR manager, discovers an inappropriate custom emoji, and submits a request to Shonda, the Workspace Admin, to delete it.
How should Shonda address this request?
Teara is a Workspace Owner. She has discovered that projects and key decisions are being discussed via direct messages, because public channel message retention settings are set to delete messages after 20 days. The decision regarding this setting was made 2 years ago, and now the setting is no longer required.
Team members are experiencing difficulty creating channels. Teara is wondering if there are other settings she should review that might be contributing to the direct message conversations.
Which settings and permissions should Teara change to promote increased communication outside of direct messages?
You're a Workspace Owner introducing Slack to your organization for the first time.
In order to encourage employees to use Slack, you've organized a contest to see who can send the most messages in Slack channels in a week.
What's the best way to determine the winner?
(Select the best answer.)
A few months ago, a team of developers at Blue Inc identified a new issue during testing and created a public channel called #bug-cricket to communicate about the issue. After some casual conversation back and forth in the channel, the team discovered that a problem with the old architecture caused this bug.
They may need to reference the history in the future.
Of note, there has not been any new activity in #bug-cricket for months, and the bug case has been closed. What should the team do with #bug-cricket?
Kathleen is a Workspace Owner who leads the marketing department at a mid-sized company in Pune, India.
She keeps receiving new campaigns at her desk to review and approve, but she has never heard of these initiatives. Many of her colleagues are equally confused. She has a few key public channels where she has explained to her team that marketing conversations should take place, so she wonders where her team is
communicating. Upon investigation, she discovers that users are creating their own unique channels for each marketing campaign. Subsequently, important employees have been excluded, duplicate projects exist, and information is fragmented.
To enhance transparency and collaboration, Kathleen emphasizes that users should discuss projects together in the agreed-upon channels, as they often involve the same people.
Which settings and permissions should Kathleen change to reinforce this message?
You're an IT Manager and Slack Workspace Owner leading a team of employees on Slacks Business plan.
Your security team has requested that you put a governance process in place for installing and approving Slack apps requested by users. They want to ensure that your team reviews each app before installation to ensure it meets compliance requirements They also want to audit requests and approvals, and to require a rationale for why the app is being requested.
What is the best approach that uses native functionality to address the security teams request to manage app installations and approvals?
In Large Inc’s Enterprise Grid design, each business unit has its own workspace, and everyone is also a member of the Global workspace. The Sales team at Large Inc are slow adopters of Slack and have been using email instead of Slack to communicate with peers.
Which of these strategies should the Sales team AVOID using to connect cross-functionally more effectively with Slack?