Workshop 2: Workspace Admin | Lesson 5 of 7 | Workspace Consolidation

Question 1

Your organization has recently acquired another organization and is undergoing a restructuring of Slack workspaces. With this restructuring, you have begun the process of consolidating the 2 organizations’ Slack workspaces. After merging the acquired org’s workspace into your existing workspace, the acquired org’s workspace is now empty and unused. You and your stakeholders must decide how to proceed with the acquired org’s workspace.

What action should you take first?

Change the workspace name and URL.

Disable all user access and ask users to unsubscribe from the workspace.

Evaluate potential new use cases for the workspace.

Remove all references to the workspace and delete the workspace.

Answer 1

Evaluate potential new use cases for the workspace.

Question 2

Moving Channels (Org level)

Answer 2

Org Owners & Admins can move channels to any Workspace, but must also have an Admin role in the channel’s original Workspace

Question 3

Moving Channels (Workspace level)

Answer 3

Workspace Owners & Admins can move channels, but must have Admin roles in both the channel’s orig & destination Workspace

Question 4

Adding Members

Answer 4

Members & guests need to be + to new Wksp to avoid disruption

Members will lose access to a Channel if they aren’t already in the Wkspc it’s moving to

Question 5

Apps & Custom bots

Answer 5

Admins will need to reinstall Apps & Custom bots

Question 6

Multi-Workspace Channels

Answer 6

All multi-Wksp Channels that were shared across the 2 origin Wkspc must be config to also incl the new destination Wksp

Question 7

Private Channels

Answer 7

Since pvt channels can be moved, Wksp Owners can search &f ind them even if not a member, but won’t be able to see the content of the pvt channel or any people in it

Question 8

What is not a common use case for consolidating Workspaces?

Pockets of growth/Security & Alignment/Updates to Wkspc Details/Org Restructuring

Answer 8

Updates to Wkspc Details

Question 9

What are the benefits of repurposing a Workspace? Repurposing allows you to … Select 2 correct responses.

Leverage existing Workspace setup/Remove unwanted Users from a Workspace/Eliminate Admin Oversight of a Workspace/Retain data in a Workspace/Clear Data from a Workspace so you can start from scratch

Answer 9

Leverage existing Workspace setup, Retain data in a Workspace

Question 10

What is T about Workspace deletion?

Workspace deletion can easily be reversed since Slack maintains a backup copy of your data/

Workspace deletion can be reversed if a req is made w/in 48hrs/

Wkspc deletion is permanent & no messages or files can be recovered/

Wksp deletion only applies to Wkspc on the Po & Biz + plans

Answer 10

Wkspc deletion is permanent & no messages or files can be recovered