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Turn Off "Create Site"/Office 365 Group on OneDrive Page?
There might be a whole set of reasons for organisations to implement tighter controls over Team site creation. For example our organisation requires users to accept terms and conditions before a site is provisioned. This includes a disclaimer outlining roles and responsibilities of the site owners.
We also create entries in our central ITSM system for every site collection provisioned which captures who owns it, what purpose is was requested for as well as other useful information (for example for charge-back purposes we capture business unit's cost center). Every organisation operates differently and what might be a non-issue for a smaller company may be a non-starter in a large enterprise setting. Microsoft is slowly recognizing it, but there are still gaps in the Office 365 platform which they need to plug.
Thank you Alex Ouretski and Ben-Jay for the descriptions of your situations.
As far as I could understand from your answers, the problem is not necessarily that users create teamsites as they please, but that they don't also do all the other steps that the sys-admins do when creating a teamsite, like creating entries in the central ITSM system for every site collection, some training on how to properly use teamsites, make sure the user understands the responsibilities that come with a teamsite, etc.
From what you said, but maybe there's more to it, that I don't know about, the problem is not the existence of the plus icon, but the lack of customization that comes with it. I guess if you could create a questionnaire that properly hooks with your ITSM, and that it has all the right disclaimers and that it also has some video for training, that would be good enough for you, to be displayed when the user clicks on the + icon. This would probably make the life of the sysadmin a bit easier. As it is now, the plus icon seems like a good promising feature, but half-baked.
To be honest, I expected your answers to be related to costs. I don't know how it works and whether Microsoft charges extra for every teamsite, but if it does, I can perfectly understand that you'd want to make sure that only people who really need a teamsite, get a teamsite, and that the bill is not ramping up because a user missclicked while on onedrive. I couldn't find this information online, but I'd imagine that one of you would know. Does it cost more for you for each extra teamsite?
This was a bug in the code for OneDrive and it should have respected the SharePoint Admin center to hide the link. Microsoft was able to correct this for my company's tenant and we no longer see the "+" create group on our OneDrive sites.
