Configuring your Slack workspace to be exactly the way you want can take time.

Part of that protection generally includes minimising the number of people that can change things and mess things up.

To be able to access Slacks channel management permission parameters, you better get to your workspaces permissions parameters.

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To get there, you first need to choose the workspace name in the top-right corner.

Click Expand next to Channel management in the Permissions tab.

The first dropdown box lets you configure who can create private channels.

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The next dropdown box allows you to configure who can create public channels.

This defaults to everyone except guests, although you may want to restrict this to admin users too.

The third dropdown box allows you to configure who can archive channels.

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This defaults to everyone except guests and should definitely be limited to admin users.

The fourth dropdown box allows you to configure who can remove members from private channels.

The fifth dropdown box allows you to configure who can remove members from public channels.

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This setting defaults to workspace admins and owners only and should stay that way.

The last dropdown box configures who can manage posting permissions in channels.

Once youre happy with all of the channel management prefs, click Save to apply the changes.