Enforce naming conventions across Office 365 Groups

Now that we can enforce naming standards in Azure AD vs exchange, has anyone tried yet? Does it update existing groups like exchange did? thanks,jb

groups

Office 365 Groups

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Mar 12, 2018
I ran into that too, and I think my problem was because I hadn't actually created the Group.Unified object/setting in AzureAD yet. Therefore, the error report was technically correct.

Check this to see if you have anything configured:

Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | ForEach Values

If not, create the settings AAD object:

Creating the Group.Unified Settings object (1-time task)

$template = Get-AzureADDirectorySettingTemplate | where-object {$_.displayname -eq “Group.Unified”}

$setting = $template.CreateDirectorySetting()

New-AzureADDirectorySetting -DirectorySetting $setting

After that, the 'is null' error should go away as the setting actually exists.

Re-run Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | ForEach Values and you should at least see the blank settings.

I found this site extremely helpful getting my settings configured & managing them:

https://drewmadelung.com/managing-office-365-group-using-azure-ad-powershell-v2/

HTH

Amit Ahuja
Copper Contributor
Jul 11, 2018
Kindly suggest what is wrong happening here, Tried everything in Directory Parameter.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString "AllowedtocreateO365Groups"
ObjectId DisplayName Description
-------- ----------- -----------
ad5ceeae-033f-46e8-99dd-fbc570bbc0e8 AllowedtocreateO365Groups

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString "AllowedtocreateO365Groups"
ObjectId DisplayName Description
-------- ----------- -----------
ad5ceeae-033f-46e8-99dd-fbc570bbc0e8 AllowedtocreateO365Groups

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Template = Get-AzureADDirectorySettingTemplate | where {$_.DisplayName -eq 'Group.Unified'}
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Setting = $Template.CreateDirectorySetting()
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> New-AzureADDirectorySetting -DirectorySetting $Setting
New-AzureADDirectorySetting : Error occurred while executing NewDirectorySetting
StatusCode: BadRequest
ErrorCode: Request_BadRequest
Message: A conflicting object with one or more of the specified property values is present in the directory.
At line:1 char:1
+ New-AzureADDirectorySetting -DirectorySetting $Setting
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [New-AzureADDirectorySetting], ApiException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Open.MSGraphBeta.Client.ApiException,Microsoft.Open.MSGraphBeta.PowerShell.NewDirectorySetting
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-AzureADDirectorySetting
Id DisplayName TemplateId Values
-- ----------- ---------- ------
0dd206ca-7d7d-4649-bb2e-ca8246f11a3e Group.Unified 62375ab9-6b52-47ed-826b-58e47e0e304b {class SettingValue {...

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Setting = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id (Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ).id
Get-AzureADDirectorySetting : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Id'.
At line:1 char:40
+ $Setting = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id (Get-AzureADDirectorySetti ...
+ ~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Get-AzureADDirectorySetting], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : NamedParameterNotFound,Microsoft.Open.MSGraphBeta.PowerShell.GetDirectorySetting
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Setting = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Setting["EnableGroupCreation"] = $False
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $Setting["GroupCreationAllowedGroupId"] = (Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString "AllowedtocreateO365Groups").objectid
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Set-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ -DirectorySetting $Setting
cmdlet Set-AzureADDirectorySetting at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
DirectorySetting: AllowedtocreateO365Groups
Set-AzureADDirectorySetting : Cannot bind parameter 'DirectorySetting'. Cannot convert the "AllowedtocreateO365Groups" value of type "System.String" to type "Microsoft.Open.MSGraph.Model.DirectorySetting".
At line:1 char:1
+ Set-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Gr ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-AzureADDirectorySetting], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.Open.MSGraphBeta.PowerShell.SetDirectorySetting
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> $setting
Id DisplayName TemplateId Values
-- ----------- ---------- ------
0dd206ca-7d7d-4649-bb2e-ca8246f11a3e Group.Unified 62375ab9-6b52-47ed-826b-58e47e0e304b {class SettingValue {...

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> (Get-AzureADDirectorySetting).values
Name Value
---- -----
CustomBlockedWordsList
EnableMSStandardBlockedWords False
ClassificationDescriptions
DefaultClassification
PrefixSuffixNamingRequirement
AllowGuestsToBeGroupOwner False
AllowGuestsToAccessGroups True
GuestUsageGuidelinesUrl
GroupCreationAllowedGroupId
AllowToAddGuests True
UsageGuidelinesUrl
ClassificationList
EnableGroupCreation True

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>
- cfiessinger
  Microsoft
  Jul 12, 2018
  Lots of errors in your multiple cmdlets, please follow the step by step from this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618
  - Amit Ahuja
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 12, 2018
    Hello Sir,
    I generated those error in my question to show you. And I am following the same article.
    -----------------------------------------------------------------------
    New-AzureADDirectorySetting -DirectorySetting $Setting - Here is an error in the original post and it is expected as per the article.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    $Setting = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id (Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ).id
    Get-AzureADDirectorySetting : A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'Id'
    - According to error, I did a little different but same task.
    $Setting = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ
    So I have proceeded further.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    on Last step, I am struggling
    Set-AzureADDirectorySetting | where -Property DisplayName -Value "Group.Unified" -EQ -DirectorySetting $Setting
    
    It is not recognizing $settings parameter...tried different values.
    ----------------------------------------------------
    And in My original post, you can see I have posted in last $setting parameter value as to eliminate the doubt of null value.
    -----------------------------------------------------
    May I request you to provide your comment on this? It would be grateful.

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