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Turn off ability to create teams
We also have had a A1 plan with Azure Basic which should be included. It is difficult to setup the process but it should be supported to disable this feature.
Disable Teams: http://macslui.blogspot.com/2017/11/disable-self-service-teams-creation.html
Manage 365 Groups: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618
In addition persons can create Distribution List if that feature is available to users if you have not secure it.
http://msweany.blogspot.com/2014/06/office365-remove-users-create-dist-list.html
We do not recommend to disable people from creating Teams as it takes away a lot of the value that Teams provide. Instead we would recommend to double down of user education -- and make users aware that the admin can see who created certain Team in case their is an inappropriate Team being created.
More information: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/plan-teams-governance-edu
Thomas Binder seriously!
Ever heard of an IT department trying to manage a SharePoint site and keeping it organised and tidy. We have people creating teams constantly - even after education. The teams sites are never setup correctly, they are never attached to the hub site (they cant do that unless they are an admin anyway), never added to the sharepoint Teams links page on our intranet.
Further as a growing business it requires constant education of new staff to want to use it because they see it available. One person created a team site for his personal files!!
Why is it so hard to give the OPTION for the site administrators to control who can create teams. IF they want to allow freedom - great let them have it, but most corporate business want to control how their Intranet and sharepoint sites are structured.