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Turn off ability to create teams
Hi all, From a safeguarding and child protection point of view, in a school environment, it is not appropriate to allow students or staff to create new teams. Can the ability to disable team cr...
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
Thomas Binder
Microsoft
MicrosoftWe 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
Classic case of "software provider thinks they know best" 🥴
Education is great, sometimes it doesn't work and user privileges are a better safeguard. We don't have time to be constantly educating people on what is not best practice and fixing up the issues caused by software that has dumb flaws in design.
Imagine saying "oh no, there's no need to have private folders.. just educate people not to go into the folders they shouldn't". Absolutely ludicrous.
It's "in case there is" by the way, not their.
Thomas Binder take off those rose colored glasses yet?
Donnie Ewers anyone who thinks educating users instead of limiting access this has know clue how to manage a IT department.
organizing and having a structure that is clean for SharePoint is extremely important and this is a huge deal regardless of educating users or not.
its the equivalent to allowing anyone make distribution groups and when you grow in size, you have hundreds of useless teams groups made for 1,2,3 users that end up being used for a few weeks, days, or not touched for years
then you have to clean up a mess of stuff. this recommendation of just "educating" users is beyond stupid.
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.Thomas BinderI think you missing the point if i'm honest from a Educational perspective.
Thomas Binder The problem is, you mention "people" in general. I agree with this, but consider students and especially pupils - there should be an easy button for school admins, avoiding PowerShell completely.
- Thanks for the comments guys, really appreciate it.
Thomas, whilst I agree in principle, educating the kids to behave is the way forward. But our concern is not really kids messing about and creating random groups, its teams that are created for the purpose of bullying. We take a zero tolerance approach on bullying and abuse and it would be seen as very bad if we were the ones facilitating this abuse. Also, it becomes very time intensive trawling through many groups, trying to ascertain which is genuine and which isnt.
