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How do you handle Groups / SharePoint / Teams creation
Based on what the majority of responses here I will say our approach was different. Our organization is about 9,000 people and we are global. That adds a big layer of complexity for us, that said, we opted to allow users to create groups on their own. We are still very early in adoption stage (marketing, promoting, educating) an considering the amount of groups created so far (less than 200) our users seem to be conservative about group creation so that is a good thing for now. There is a little bit of anxiety over what will happen once people start heavily using groups but we hope to mitigate this with continous education and governance. The one area that is grey for us is management of groups (i.e. activity/usage etc.) not sure if others have a better way of managing groups but we think usage of groups will be trigger for us to delete unused groups in an effort to keep things clean.
hello lillian
you said:
"...The one area that is grey for us is management of groups (i.e. activity/usage etc.) not sure if others have a better way of managing groups but we think usage of groups will be trigger for us to delete unused groups in an effort to keep things clean."
What plans do you have in regards of analyzing the activity and usage of your O365Groups ?
Are you thinking of using the existing Group activity API + Compliance and Security API for parsing the logs + some sort of powershell code?
or would you prefer a 3rd party solution (covering all of these elements in a dashbaord), in case such solution exists ?
- Lillian DiazMay 16, 2017Brass Contributor
Hi Stefan,
For now, we are going with managing through API/powershell codes to track activity, usage, security ect. but I am open to adjusting the strategy as things evolve. What is your company doing to manage groups?