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Restrict Office 365 group creation to faculty licenses only
I am global admin. I need to restrict Office 365 Group creation to users with faculty licenses only. Students are creating groups and should be going through their instructors to do so. We have Azur...
You can easily script this but that doesn't eliminate the need for Azure AD Premium https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-who-can-create-office-365-groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618: "The administrator who configures the settings, and the members of the affected groups, must have Azure AD Premium licenses assigned to them".
You could however license one service account with Azure AD Premium and create a workflow with PowerShell or a service like Azure Automation where teachers could request new groups using ie. a SharePoint Form or PowerApps, then disable group creation for everyone else. That way you could also build in logic for group naming and more without the need for premium licenses.