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Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team
We have disabled group creation by end users due to group creation getting out of hand and not following our governance model for sharepoint sites. This also enatialed disabling planner. Now I hear Yammer groups are going to create an office 365 group and a teamsite which I dont govern... WHY...When will we be able to see and manage the site collections created by office 365 groups?
Jeremy Mazner will you give Robert Woods some commentary on this? Thanks
catching up after vacation, I can respond to this:
>>When will we be able to see and manage the site collections created by office 365 groups?
right now! You can use SharePoint Online PowerShell commands Get-SPOSite and Set-SPOSite to see any site, including those created as part of a group. The actions on these sites are limited today to only setting storage, because other options (owners, guest policy, delete/un-delete) are controlled by the group object in AAD.
We are working on also making these sites appear in the SharePoint Tenant Admin web interface.
Always happy for feedback on how we can improve manageability!
- In regards to Delete/undelete do we have a solid timeline on when we're getting soft delete features for 365 groups? it's the terrifyingly big elephant in the room that accidently(or maliciously) deleted groups will be gone forever.
Robert, I am not in control of our groups or decisions, but the governance is something I worry about. We do have the Planner enabled which does give a back door to create a group. We are on a University campus and if every student creates a Planner for each of their courses that could be as many as 8 planner/groups/file storage/calendars/OneNote's created. That is assuming they don't also create one for other activities they are involved in. If you conservatively say 500 students create just 4 planners, that is 2000 planners inthe first year alone.
- I would love to see your students use Planner to that extent! How can we help make that happen. :-)
To use group calendars we need to have the teacher set events that students canĀ“t delete. If that is solved then we can switch from Exchange calendars and team sites to Groups.
This school is a vocational school for higher ed, one of the tracks is SharePoint developers.
Ove Bristrand
http://netintegrate.se
