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How do you handle Groups / SharePoint / Teams creation
I tried setting up an audit item for when groups get created but it's showing an alert for every time someone creates a sharing item as well for some reason. That way I can kind of audit whats going on as it happens vs. just ignoring or checking after it's too late.
I agree with the potential problem of ending up with two names the same if users can create a Group (which creates a site), or a Site (which creates a Group). Our users are used to the inability to do it themselves, so I think we'll be ok with continuing this level of control.
- Yeah I'm heading down that path. Just trying to figure out how to turn everything off first. In the meantime I have an alert that lets me know when a group is created because people don't know about 365 just have people poking around that have created anything yet.
We have limited the ability to create Groups to the members of a Security Group in the O365 Admin portal (a process described already here and I think also in Tony Redmond's excellent and must-have book). We have also limited the ability to create SharePoint sites in the SharePoint Admin portal. This means that the option to 'Create Site' from the SharePoint portal is not there for end users, and they also don't get the option from Outlook.
The bit that I'm less certain about right now is how the DL to Group process is going to work, but I assume that I will be able to convert the DL to a Group, that it won't be automatic. We expect that our SharePoint model will change once we have more Group-based SharePoint sites replacing previous DLs plus a separate SharePoint site.