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kwesterink
May 02, 2020Copper Contributor
Office 365 Group structure and Migration
Dear Readers, My employer gave me the assignment to use just Microsoft Teams within Office 365. So we enabled AD sync, bought licenses and set up Teams "Lite" Basically chat and that's it. This me...
Joe Stocker
May 16, 2020Bronze Contributor
one option is to enable automatic naming conventions so that when people create Teams, it appends "Teams_" to the front of whatever name they use, so that it could not conflict with the groups on-premises.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-naming-policy
Another option is to restrict Teams creation to only Exchange admins who can verify that the group gets created without conflicting with a group on-premises.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-naming-policy
Another option is to restrict Teams creation to only Exchange admins who can verify that the group gets created without conflicting with a group on-premises.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide