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Office 365 Groups - How to create groups with a unique display name?
Is it possible to create Office 365 groups created via Team Sites, Planner, Yammer, Stream and Teams with a unique display name? If yes, How? We would like to prevent the creation of Office 365 g...
The display name is not a parameter that's enforced for uniqueness, so there is not setting you can configure. You can however specify it when creating the Group and change it post-creation, so simply integrate a simple check whether that name already exists in your processes.
Users are free to create Office 365 groups via Team Sites, Planner, Yammer, Stream and Teams using the corresponding user interface.
How can you integrate a simple check in the creation process?
- Simple answer: you cannot integrate a simple check in the creation process
But you can limit the creation process only to people that understand the need to use proper display names :)
Or you can run the Get/Set-UnifiedGroup cmdlets in a script to periodically check for bad group names and then rename them.
