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Osi_DS
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May 24, 2022

Hierarchical vs autonomous management in MS Teams

Need help understanding the relative value of:   1. Creating MS Teams groups/sites for two groups within an organization that I then need to manage. versus 2. Allowing each of those two respectiv...
  • Are you an administrator? You can create groups, teams, sites for others using the admin portals without adding yourself as an owner. But you need to add an owner. That person would be responsible for managing the team settings, including membership if it's a private team. Anyone can join a public team.

    You'll only be the owner if creating a team from within Teams as an example. For this scenario you'd have add additional owners and remove yourself from the team.

    You have the possibility to be granular and specify who should be able to create groups by configuring the AzureADDirectorySetting with PowerShell. These would be the only ones that can create M365 groups (in turn Teams team).

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide