Get started with administration

These resources will help you get started with your Mattermost self-hosted or Cloud workspace.

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As a system admin, access the System Console by selecting the Product menu and selecting System Console.

• Mattermost feature labels - Learn what Mattermost feature labels, including Experimental, Beta, General Availability, and Deprecated mean to the status, maturity, and support level of Mattermost product features and functionality in your Mattermost deployment.

• Optimize your workspace - Review health and growth scores for your Mattermost workspace, and take necessary action using the workspace optimization page in the System Console.

• Configure your workspace - Mattermost offers extensive configuration options for both self-hosted Mattermost servers and Mattermost Cloud workspaces, and provides a list of deprecated configuration settings no longer supported.

• Enable Copilot - Learn how to enable Copilot in Mattermost

• Product Limits - Learn about Mattermost product limits.

• Manage user surveys - Learn how to create, manage, and export data from user surveys in your self-hosted Mattermost deployment.

• Environment variables - Learn how to use environment variables to manage configuration for a self-hosted deployment.

• Provisioning workflows - Learn how to provision and de-provision user accounts.

• User authentication - All versions of Mattermost provide basic authentication and offer multi-factor authentication out of the box. Enterprise and Professional versions of Mattermost also include Active Directory/LDAP and SSO for GitLab SSO, OpenID, Google, and Entra ID.

• User permissions - All versions of Mattermost offer standard user permissions control. Enterprise and Professional versions also include advanced permissions control to customize which users can perform specific actions.

• Manage team and channel members - Manage team and channel members synchronization, moderation, and membership settings.

• Customize branding - Change Mattermost branding, site name, and description with custom branding tools.

• Notify admin - Keep track of your users’ feature requirement needs.

Advanced user management

• Use AD/LDAP synchronized groups to manage team or private channel membership - Synchronize your AD/LDAP group with private Mattermost channels and teams.

• Guest accounts - Create guest accounts to collaborate with individuals outside your organization.

• SAML Single Sign-On - Configure Mattermost to be a SAML 2.0 service provider.

• SAML Single Sign-On: technical documentation - SAML 2.0 reference documentation for Mattermost.

Advanced workspace management

• Connected workspaces - Connect channels from multiple Mattermost servers in a federated architecture.

• Statistics - Get statistics about your Mattermost server usage.

• In-product notices - Get notified about Mattermost updates via in-app notices.

• User satisfaction surveys - Learn about Mattermost user satisfaction surveys and how to configure their operation.

• System-wide notifications - Display system-wide notifications to all users across all teams.

• Bulk export tool - Export user, team, channel, and post data from Mattermost.