How do you handle Groups / SharePoint / Teams creation

I've seen a few other posts that have brushed by this, but I'm curious how others handle this. It's really stressing me out as an admin because I like keeping things clean, however, I'm starting to t...

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StefanFried

Iron Contributor

May 16, 2017

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 Diaz

Brass Contributor

May 16, 2017

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?

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