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Disable Create/Edit Teams Sites BUT allow owner to manage members?
- Hi! Being able to create teams and have edit rights as an owner including managing memberships is 2 different thing!
So yes, the owner will not be able to create new Teams but will be able to edit and manage membership in the team in which he/she is owner of
What you can do if alteration is a no go, is to only have an Admin person as owner in each team! All members will be able to request membership that the owner have to approve ( we are talking private teams )
Still suggest the first option though!
Regarding teams creation this can be governed by restricting office 365 group creation. This has nothing to do really with being an owner of a team already!
You can have a teams creation workflow which creates teams and assign owners! If those or any other user isn’t specifically allowed to create a team/ group - they can’t!
https://docs.microsoft.com/en/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide
Thanksadam deltinger
So if I use the method you suggested to disable create group option for O365 (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide), would a team Owner still have the option to manage the membership to that team (even if he/she is restricted in creating a new team/group)?
For example: Team Site 'Finance' is created by an admin. John Smith is assigned as a Team owner. He does not have create or edit rights because the create office 365 groups option has been restricted. Would John Smith still be able to add/remove members to the 'Finance' Team's site or would this need to go up to the admin to manage the members?
Regards,
Shuja
- Hi! Being able to create teams and have edit rights as an owner including managing memberships is 2 different thing!
So yes, the owner will not be able to create new Teams but will be able to edit and manage membership in the team in which he/she is owner ofadam deltingerI have one other caveat that I wanted to clarify. You mentioned that being able to create teams and edit rights are 2 different things. Does that mean an owner who is restricted from creating a Team Site/Group can still edit the name of a Team Site/Group (as well as managing the site/group membership)?
If yes, is there a way from stopping users/owners from editing a Team Site Name without taking away their right to manage members? We would have an approval process in place so once a name has been approved, we don't want owners to modify this and breach naming conventions.
- No there isn’t any way of having an owner doing membership and edits! That’s the purpose of the owner. In that case I gave a scenario where only an admin is owner
- Thanks Adam. That's really useful and answers the question.