Slack administration: roles, apps, sign-in, Slack Connect, retention and logs
For IT staff who administer a Slack workspace or org: the owner, admin, channel manager and org roles, channel management tools, app approval and app managers, SAML single sign-on and SCIM provisioning, deactivating members, Slack Connect approval settings, message and file retention, and access logs and the Audit Logs API, with what each plan offers where Slack states it.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Slack
Skills you'll practise
- Assign the narrowest Slack role (owner, admin, channel manager, app manager) that covers a request
- Use channel management tools to archive, convert or restrict channels, preferring reversible actions
- Turn on app approval, delegate reviews to app managers and remove restricted apps that are already installed
- Choose a SAML SSO requirement option and explain what SCIM provisioning automates
- Offboard a member by deactivation and describe what happens to their sessions, channels and messages
- Explain message retention defaults and member overrides, and that deleted data can't be recovered
- Investigate sign-in questions with access logs and say when the Audit Logs API (Enterprise) is needed
Course outline
- 1.Slack administrationVideo · 2 min
- 2.Roles, channels and appsLesson · 17 min
- 3.Sign-in, provisioning and offboardingLesson · 16 min
- 4.External organizations, retention and logsLesson · 15 min
- 5.Slack administration: roles, apps, sign-in, Slack Connect, retention and logs: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam11 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Slack Help Center: Types of roles in Slack
- Slack Help Center: Permissions by role in Slack
- Slack Help Center: Use channel management tools
- Slack Help Center: Manage app approval for your workspace
- Slack Help Center: Customize message and file retention policies
- Slack Help Center: SAML single sign-on
- Slack Help Center: Manage members with SCIM provisioning
- Slack Help Center: Deactivate a member's account
- Slack Help Center: View Access Logs for your workspace
- Slack Help Center: Manage Slack Connect channel approval settings for your workspace
- Slack Help Center: Slack Connect guide: work with external organizations
- Slack developer docs: Audit Logs API
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