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O365 Groups Management Concerns
Deleted I just created a uservoice post for this. We are in a very similar boat, along with the students creating whatever name they want we have concerns of namespace collisions. I am not sure if this will change anything but why not give it a shot.
Great idea - sending this out to colleagues and followers. Thanks for creating the post!
Are you entirely sure you are doing the right thing for your staff/faculty/students by holding back Groups though ?
While as the IT team I absolutely care about all these points, but I don't have any staff complaining. In fact they are loving the self service capability of groups / teams / yammer and being productive like never before. When the naming scheme comes I can get things back under control, and when we can expire groups even better for my storage.
My only accountability is to keep my staff-customers happy and productive, sometimes this means compromises for me.
- Absolutely, I do think this is the right thing! We have tried giving students the benefit of the doubt that they could be responsible - and have ended up with group names that would make the Kool-Aid Man blush.
We have over 50k student accounts to monitor for bad behavior like this, and a team of 5 admins. That's an untenable position for us.
This is something that regular business IT doesn't understand. If you have an adult staff member creating offensive or inappropriate groups, you can fire them or reprimand them - and honestly, they are adults, so it would be out of the ordinary for an employee to even try that.
Our users are literally teenagers and twenty somethings, so a high percentage of these groups are offensive.- I agree, and wouldn't want to give the impression I would understand the 'fun' of managing student users.
Is a naming policy really the solution? Whatever words and phrases were banned would they not get more and more creative? And then even if the names were acceptable, would the content not still be unacceptable. If this is the environment, maybe it's not the service for your students but is for your staff.
When the naming scheme comes I can get things back under control, and when we can expire groups even better for my storage.
Well this would be of course great...no question..., but are you sure that all the resources which were provisioned by the group creation are really gone whenever the group is gone ?
There are plenty of cases where SPO sites still remain for ages :(
And please don't forget that MS Teams remain as well if you trigger the deletion of a Group (atm)
In my opinion, a full matrix and full big picture about all my groups and the corresponding resources are a must otherwise your will see a lot of orphan objects
just my 2 cents :)
