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Chuck Whitson's avatar
Chuck Whitson
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Sep 29, 2016

Default Group Privacy Setting

Is it possible to change the default group privacy setting to private from public?
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Eugene Barnardt's avatar
Eugene Barnardt
Copper Contributor
Mar 22, 2017

Does anyone know of a PowerShell script whereby you can convert all Public groups to Private ?

 

The idea is I can perform a "sweep up" in case any users created Public groups (for data privacy reasons we want all groups to be Private)

 

Thanks in advance

  • Eugene Barnardt's avatar
    Eugene Barnardt
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 22, 2017
    I found it:

    Get-UnifiedGroup | Where {$_.AccessType -eq "Public"} | Set-UnifiedGroup -AccessType Private
    • cfiessinger's avatar
      cfiessinger
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      Mar 22, 2017

      A more advance version based on classification:

       

      #...................................
      # Variables:
      #   Cut off date in days
      #   Classification
      #...................................
      $cutoffdate = ((Get-Date).AddDays(-10))
      $classification = "High"

      # Retrieve recently created groups with accesstype set to PUBLIC
      $Groups = Get-UnifiedGroup | Where-Object {
          $_.WhenCreated -ge $cutoffdate -and $_.AccessType -eq 'Public' -and $_.Classification -eq $classification } `
           | Sort-Object whencreated | Select DisplayName, WhenCreated, AccessType, Classification, ManagedBy

      # For each new group update set accesstype to PRIVATE
      ForEach ($G in $Groups) {
          Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity $G.DisplayName -AccessType 'Private'
          Write-Host "The following Group privacy setting was updated:" $G.DisplayName
      }

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