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Overview
Site admins can access Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise (SOE) admin settings by clicking Admin settings in the left-hand menu. From there, site admins can configure many aspects of their SOE site.
Customize
Appearance
Update the site name and make changes to the site theme. Design areas within the Theme editor include your company logo in the header, button colors, link colors, accessibility and more.
Custom messages
Customize content for site banners, onboarding content, profile, the tour page, and parts of the question-asking experience. Each custom message field includes context for where the message will appear. The field supports both HTML and Markdown. Markdown will be converted to HTML upon saving.
System messages
Add a message at the top of the page to alert all users to system maintenance, important updates, and more.
Reputation
Manage the reputation thresholds for privileges, including at what reputation levels a user can ask, edit, or delete questions, comment, upvote or downvote, access moderator tools or review queues, and more. When a site admin adjusts the threshold of a particular privilege, they get to see a preview of the number of users impacted prior to saving.
Tags
Create and manage tags without posting a question first.
Custom awards
Create custom awards to encourage healthy participation and engagement. They work much like the existing site badges but can be personalized to your own site to incentivize good behavior and recognize outstanding contributors.
Dashboard
The Dashboard includes benchmarks for several user engagement metrics. As a site administrator, you can define and enable these benchmarks on the dashboard admin settings page.
Access management
Users and permissions
Manage user access, including setting a user's role (regular user, moderator, or site admin), deactivating and reactivating users, and exporting a user's data for GDPR purposes. Bulk actions are also available.
User groups
Add users to groups to reflect their expertise, internal team, project membership, and more. Users can see and ping all existing groups and their members to help them identify and reach the people better positioned to help them on the site. Create as many groups as needed, each with their own name and short description. There's no limit on the number of groups to which a user can belong.
Authentication
Choose and configure the site's authentication method. Stack Overflow Enterprise supports connecting to your Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 is recommended and is the only supported option for Hosted deployments).
SCIM
Configure a connection between Stack Overflow Enterprise and your Identity Provider to manage user deactivation/reactivation and, optionally, moderator access.
Teams
NOTE: The Private Teams feature must be enabled to access this page.
Create teams and manage team membership as well as the sync settings for each team.
Teams sync
NOTE: The Private Teams feature must be enabled to access this page.
Enable API sync for team membership.
Content
Articles
Choose whether articles should be turned on or off for your Enterprise environment. Articles are long-form, authoritative posts that expand the capabilities of Stack Overflow Enterprise beyond pure Q&A, helping it become a central repository for internal knowledge.
Unified search
Allow the ability to search and access knowledge from both the public Stack Overflow site (a read-only view) and your private internal instance of Stack Overflow Enterprise. Being able to search private and public content at the same time provides a better knowledge finding experience and increases efficiency in completing tasks and solving problems. As a site administrator, you can turn this feature on or off at any time.
Content health
Surface potentially out-of-date content to help administrators and moderators manage the health and quality of site content. Site administrators can manage a set of thresholds to adjust the scope of the Content Health review queue.
You can narrow or widen the age range of questions shown in the queue by selecting the number of days for "Posts shown in the queue must be older than", and experiment with Low/Medium/High thresholds for the automatic health check calculations. A higher threshold will scope down the queue to only questions that most urgently need a health check.
Communities
Organized around content tags, Communities allow members to contribute and interact on specific topics of interest and expertise. When you enable Communities, the SOE left-hand menu will show a new Communities link. Anyone can use this link to find and join Communities; users granted creation rights by a site admin (as of SOE 2023.1.117.56) can also create new Communities. Communities are disabled in SOE by default.
Integration and apps
Webhooks
Set up webhooks to push notifications of activity on Stack Overflow Enterprise to other services. Stack Overflow Enterprise currently supports Slack-specific webhooks, as well as generic webhooks.
Slack
Configure the integration for Slack, which includes notifications from Stack Overflow Enterprise to Slack, searching and posting questions to Stack Overflow Enterprise from Slack.
Microsoft Teams
Configure the Microsoft Teams integration, which allows users to post new questions, search the main site, or be notified of new activity directly from MS Teams, removing barriers to participation and increasing engagement.
GitHub
Configure the GitHub integration so that new links to file blobs, gists, pull requests, or commits on GitHub will be expanded to contain more information about them.
Jira
Configure the Jira integration, which includes searching Stack Overflow Enterprise from JIRA, looking for questions related to the tickets title and listing them on the ticket’s page. Additionally, the integration works both ways, making it so that links to tickets in your Jira instance are automatically unfurled on Stack Overflow Enterprise.
API
Create and manage API keys created for the site, including both user keys and service keys. You can also enable and disable the interactive API v3 documentation (Swagger UI) and download the API v3 endpoints and schemas definition file.
Communication
Email setup
Configure/test SMTP setup so your site can send outgoing email notifications. New SOE hosted instances have email setup pre-configured and enabled by default.
Email and notifications
Manage which email notifications the site will send by default. Users can still opt out of the notifications they'd rather not receive.
Maintenance
Run scheduled routes
Manually trigger maintenance to clean up unused tags and update tag counts.