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Exchange Admins can create O365 Groups? even is locked down to a particular group?
So maybe only the Global admin roles bypass the restrictions, and the workload-specific ones are still subject to them? With PowerBI being a straggler, as usual.
- Nah, restrictions even apply to Global Admins, we have 3 global admins, and only 2 of them can create Groups.
In any case, yes to PowerBI straggling.Um, that shouldn't be the case, admins should still be able to use the relevant admin controls to create/manage Groups.
Do you perhaps mean that this happens when they try to create a Group form within Outlook/OWA/any of the "client" endpoints? If so I believe this is the expected behavior, however the admin portal/PowerShell/etc should still allow admins to create new groups.
Just to make sure we're on the same page I dug out the documentation:
SpoilerThe steps in this article don't prevent members of the following roles from creating Office 365 Groups in the Office 365 admin center. However, it does prevent them from creating Office 365 Groups from the apps and it prevents them from creating teams (because you can't create teams in the Office 365 admin center).
Office 365 Global admins
Mailbox Administrator
Partner Tier1 Support
Partner Tier2 Support
Directory WritersIf you're a member of one of these roles, you can create Office 365 Groups for restricted users, and then assign the user as the owner of the group.
