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Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team
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.
To use group calendars we need to have the teacher set events that students can´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
Hi
In order to prevent students deleting, you can set the calendar permissioings to readonly for members(aka students) . Please use the set-unifiedgroup cmdlet for all the class groups and set CalendarMemberReadOnly
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238274(v=exchg.160).aspx
- cfiessinger
Microsoft
FYI here is a recent article on how to manage group creation using the newly released Azure AD policy: Manage Office 365 Group creation for Microsoft Planner (note we made more announcements around governance last June in this post: What’s new in Office 365 Groups administration—June 2016 update & we'll have lots of content at Microsoft Ignite around Groups governance next month in Atlanta, yes all the recordings will be made publically available shortly after the event)
