Forum Discussion
Manage automatic creation of direct reports group
THANK YOU all for your feedback, please see an update in this new thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Update-Auto-creation-of-Direct-Reports-group-in-Outlook-MC96611/m-p/55318#M2740
Not to name drop or anything, but I replied to Jeff Teper's recent tweet about some new, fun stuff coming to SharePoint and OneDrive with a comment referring to how badly this auto-creation of Direct Reports groups is. He kindly replied and it is interesting but begs a question and an opinion:
https://twitter.com/jeffteper/status/844285513859137536
Q: Is he suggesting that this roll out is now modified to be piloted in small orgs, or is he suggesting that Tenant Admins perhaps pilot the auto creation in small parts of our orgs?
Opinion: either way, I believe that my recommendation to my large org customers will be as follows:
1. Turn off Group creation for all users (allow groups to be created upon request) temporarily
2. Turn on Group creation permissions for certain small groups of managers who would be amenable to pilot this (and take responsibility for managing the membership of their group).
3. Work on the AD Managed By shortcomings
4. Once the org gets a feel for how this works, then perhaps release it broadly in their tenant by enabling more (all?) users to have group creation permissions.
Fortunately, (I guess) most of my customers are gov orgs, and so haven't quite gotten on the "everyone can create a group" bandwagon anyway.
BenSchorr wrote:
He may have been referring to the fact that at launch this feature is only enabled for tenants with less than 50K mailboxes.Which for many countries mean most tenants ;) Still good to know.
-m
Hi BenSchorr,
Can you say something about how the system goes about to detect if a Group is already in place for a manger and the direct reports? If I have existing O365 Groups set up, what parameters does it look at to avoid creating a duplicate ones?
-m
Really? Don't you think that nugget of information might have been shared through the Message Center? Is that late-developing news?
- Fair enough. I think then I can proceed with my recommendation to my customers.
Thanks
