Forum Discussion
Disable "Leave Group" functionality in Office 365 Groups
Yeah, that's true. The pesky leave group option appears in OWA and Outlook. Distribution groups allow owners to dictate that members need permission to leave... I guess I had a brain fart and assumed that the work Microsoft did for distribution group migration made this feature available to Office 365 Groups, but it doesn't. You can only insist on approval when people ask to join the group.
See New-UnifiedGroup documentation:
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ConvertClosedDlToPrivateGroup |
Optional |
System.Management.Automation.SwitchParameter |
The ConvertClosedDlToPrivateGroup switch specifies whether to migrate the closed distribution group to a private Office 365 Group. You don't need to specify a value with this switch. By default, this switch is always applied when migrating closed distribution groups, and will eventually be deprecated. If the distribution group has the value |
But (second thought)...
For groups where you wanted to "protect" group membership, you could write some PowerShell to run in the background and validate group memberships. Paul Cunningham posted an example at https://practical365.com/collaboration/groups/powershell-script-generate-reports-groups-office-365/
It would then be easy to find when users left a "protected" group and add them back again.