Aug 04 2017
07:22 AM
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07:12 PM
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TechCommunityAP
Aug 04 2017
07:22 AM
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07:12 PM
by
TechCommunityAP
We have temporarily turned off the ability for users to create Communications sites, because we have some governance and communication decisions to make... I followed these instructions , and selected "Hide the Create site command" in the SP admin center... Does this affect the ability for users to create teamsites that come with O365 groups... does turning that off affect O365 group teamsites? I assume not, but I wanted to confirm that.
Aug 04 2017 11:05 AM
Nope and Nope. The other way around also doesnt work - if you block Groups creation, people will still be able to create sites.
Sep 13 2017 08:12 AM
Greetings all,
So we have no ability to disable the 'sprawl' of team sites that are basically hidden site collections to the poor SP Admin who's lost control over who can create sites. Why did we did we allow the SP Admin to hide his create site menu option within his O365 space but suffer no ability to control O365 teams and groups laying down team sites.
I'm not clear why we have enabled SharePoint sprawl all over again.
Sorry to be blunt.
Scott
Sep 16 2017 03:41 AM
Sep 18 2017 10:08 AM - edited Sep 18 2017 10:08 AM
Sep 18 2017 10:08 AM - edited Sep 18 2017 10:08 AM
Thanks for the reply. Is there no simple way to fully disable sites being created by Groups/Teams such that no stub sites are provisioned when a group/team is created?
Imagine we already have an Intranet, we already have 100's of sites. WHy would we ever want to have sites auto provisioned in the first place?
I do see value in site provisioning for the new customer, but if we already have a mature SharePoint Intranet, the sprawl coming from site collections appearing is painful to manage, delete, and govern all together.
Just my opinion. ;)
Sep 18 2017 11:19 AM
Oct 16 2017 08:39 AM
So I understand this a little differently - and specifically the SharePoint admin console states - "Show the Create site command to users who have permission to create sites".
We have disabled users creating Office 365 Groups self service, but enabling this actually shows everyone the create site button, but tells them access denied.
Based on this article, the statement of "Show the users..." is false then? Is there a command or group that we can set so that only particular people can create new sites? And Sites only, not groups...
Oct 16 2017 11:26 AM