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Office 365 groups question
Guys
I´m made some tests with O365 Groups to understand better, but now my brain is a mess.
First of all I created a planner plan "Test1" then Office 365 creates a new group (it´s ok), then I move to Teams and when I tried to create a new Team I saw a message like "create a new team based on a office365 group" and I think awesome! I created a new team Test1
But when I went to Yammer and enabled connected groups and tried to create a new group (yammer_connected_group) on yammer, after some seconds I saw a new group on Office 365 groups with e-mail address, but I can´t not use this new group to create a team on Teams. Then I tried create a team manualy with the same name and suprise ! I get a new team with the same name but with a different e-mail and identity on Office 365.
I did the same thing with Planner and Teams. I created a new plan 'Test2' on Planner and I tried to create a new team on Teams with the same name and "voi la" I get a new team and a new group with different identity and e-mail.
After a while I return to Teams and the same link appears again "create a new team based on office365 group" and I clicked and saw the group 'test2' that was created by Planner and everything works creating a second team 'test2'.
One more thing every group that I created on yammer, create a new Office365 groups but this yammer groups could not be added in Outlook and when you try to send email to them, after some minutes, you receive a e-mail ask to confirm if was you who send it.
I can imagine the head of each Office365 administrator, because after a while they have many new groups on your Azure AD and they have no idea where it comes from.
Office365 group idea is really awsome but I think Microsoft need to improve it.
I would like to know how other Office365 administrators handle this situation and whether Microsoft has any best pratice on this?
2 Replies
- Made wade did an awesome info graphic explaining the relationships between products and groups. Take a look at it. Even covers why you can’t create a team based off a yammer because it doesn’t create the same backend exchange bits that creating a group from a plan, group connected Sharepoint site or regular office 365 group.
Anyway hopefully this is helpful. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/everyday-guide-office-365-groups-matt-wade - Microsoft provides mechanism to restrict who can create Groups and on top of that you can set your custom process to request Groups creation:
- https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-who-can-create-office-365-groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/2580991/how-to-prevent-users-from-creating-and-managing-distribution-groups-in
- https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Provisioning-an-Office-365-group-with-an-approval-flow-and-Azure/td-p/113095
