Default Group Privacy Setting

[Chuck Whitson]

Is it possible to change the default group privacy setting to private from public?

[#2]

Afaik, no. @Tony Redmond might know more :)

[#3]

Do you mean that when a Group is created it should be created as private by default?

[#4]

Yes, when a user goes to create a group, I would like to have the default privacy setting set to Private instead of Public.

[#5]

As Vassil said, I thik it's not possible

[#6]

it's not possible. the goal is to foster collaboration hence public by default

[#7]

As Christophe says, it's not possible to make private the default. However, there's nothing to stop you running some PowerShell to set groups to be private unless they meet a certain criterion (for instance, a certain value is found in the Notes field).

[#8]

You can vote for this on Uservoice here:

https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/14740545-set-office-365-...

[#9]

Same here - when creating a new group from xyz .. the pre-selected type shoul dbe private (user may overlook) and only by intend they shall set to public.

[#10]

Does anyone know of a PowerShell script whereby you can convert all Public groups to Private ?

The idea is I can perform a "sweep up" in case any users created Public groups (for data privacy reasons we want all groups to be Private)

Thanks in advance

[#11]

Not a script, but here is the PowerShell you need to create it: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/mt238274(v=exchg.160).aspx

[#12]

I found it:

Get-UnifiedGroup | Where {$_.AccessType -eq "Public"} | Set-UnifiedGroup -AccessType Private

[#13]

A more advance version based on classification:

#...................................
# Variables:
#   Cut off date in days
#   Classification
#...................................
$cutoffdate = ((Get-Date).AddDays(-10))
$classification = "High"

# Retrieve recently created groups with accesstype set to PUBLIC
$Groups = Get-UnifiedGroup | Where-Object {
    $_.WhenCreated -ge $cutoffdate -and $_.AccessType -eq 'Public' -and $_.Classification -eq $classification } `
     | Sort-Object whencreated | Select DisplayName, WhenCreated, AccessType, Classification, ManagedBy

# For each new group update set accesstype to PRIVATE
ForEach ($G in $Groups) {
    Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity $G.DisplayName -AccessType 'Private'
    Write-Host "The following Group privacy setting was updated:" $G.DisplayName
}