Prevent a user from joining a group

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I don't think there is a way to do this since it goes against how everything seems to be desgined, but I'm going to ask.

 

We have a specific need to prevent a percentage of our users from ever joining a Team (O365 Group) on their own, for compliance reasons.  If we, as admins, chose to put them in a group, that is fine, but we need to prevent them from adding themselves to any O365 groups in the organization.  

 

Is there anyway to do that?  I figured we could script something to rip them out of groups we don't want them in after the fact, but that's not as elegant of a solution.

 

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Create all your groups/teams as Private and have their owners familiarized with this requirement. There's no other way around it really, as users don't even have to be members of a Public group/team in order to access resources in it (Files being the prime example).