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O365 Groups Management Concerns
I have been getting quite a bit of flack for not releasing O365 Groups on my campus. While I would love to release Groups and its other apps, I have some concerns. 1. Naming policy still not in ...
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.
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.
