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Can I determine how many Office 365 groups a user has created?
Apart from harvesting the Audit logs, I'm not aware of any method to list all groups created by a specific person. You can guesstimate the value based on the number of groups he's an owner of, but that's not a 1:1 correspondence.
Apart from harvesting the Audit logs, I'm not aware of any method to list all groups created by a specific person. You can guesstimate the value based on the number of groups he's an owner of, but that's not a 1:1 correspondence.
Here is what Office 365 tech support responded with:
After extensive research, only the Audit log and the group listing would be a way to see how many groups a specific user has created. Groups created by this user will need to be deleted before he/she will be able to create more.
I wasn't able to get a response from the guy about what the "group listing" is that he was referring to, since no listing I've seen shows the creators; only the owners which is not the same thing. For now I will pass on to the LoB that we basically can't tell when an employee is going to max out and to try having people log into OWA with a new account ginned up just for making Office 365 groups until it too gets burned and then just order it deleted and have another one made.
- I don't see how they could track it either. Curious if you can only be owner of 250 and that's how they limit it?
When we first encountered this, someone was setting up groups for all existing client accounts and then suddenly couldn't anymore after making a group for the 250th account on the list. Here is what she recalls:
We thought it was 1 and the same, so I removed Ownership from me on all the groups, and found out that, even when I gave them away, after my email address [UPN] had created 250 groups, I could no longer make any groups.
We went through Microsoft, and it is correct, 250 groups created is a user limit.
In her specific case, she is a very trusted employee so I elevated her account to admin so she could finish her project and then busted her back down to private again.
I don't see where "created by" is a unified-group property and if the user who created the group doesn't own it, then why even track it in a way that burns the user after only 250. It's an odd limitation to build into something that is supposed to move this menial task out of IT and into the line of business, where it is going to be performed by some administrative person, until, oops, they can't do it anymore. Unless they are in the IT Dept.
- Interesting, good to know, but yeah I agree kind of odd that the limit is set like that without a seeming way to Change the creators to something else to clear out there count or something somehow.
