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Ayaz Younis
Sep 24, 2018Brass Contributor
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...
- Sep 24, 2018
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
Sep 24, 2018We 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
Ayaz Younis
Sep 24, 2018Brass Contributor
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.
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.