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Turn Off "Create Site"/Office 365 Group on OneDrive Page?
We are able to turn off "Create Site" on the SharePoint page via the SharePoint Admin.
I have not found how to do this on the OneDrive for Business page.
Is it possible to turn of the little "plus" symbol that allows users to create new Office 365 Groups/Team Sites on OneDrive page without disabling Office 365 Groups?
Thanks,
eRic
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- In my opinion (and it seems in agreement with our security team), this feature (allow users to create O365 groups / sites) should be disabled by default. This only makes sense for small organizations, but anyone with more than a thousand users will have governance issues as users start creating their own sites with no control at all.
Not sure if this has already been mentioned by anyone, but one solution was provided here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_onedrivefb-mso_other/turn-off-create-siteoffice-365-group-on-onedrive/878e4872-cc86-4c82-94e7-5dd6042e6964?auth=1
Government tenant here, so no Teams, but in OneDrive user can click on the + and an option to create a Team site or Communication site is made available to them.
This is wrong at so many levels.
Why have the Team option when my tenant can't do Teams?
Why allow OUR users, not Microsoft's, the ability to create Communication Sites or even Team Sites?
Hi C_the_S - the option is to create a SharePoint Online "Team Site" that is connected to an Office 365 Group, this is seperate to the Microsoft Teams service. Totally understand that some customers may wish to have one entry point for creating this types of services - we actually like the multiple entry points (i.e. SharePoint home, OWA, Planner, Teams and now OneDrive). But, I get that this may not work for some too.
Mine is another company that would like to prevent this backdoor into SharePoint site creations...
Is the issue with the "+" sign in the OneDrive right-hand pane that creates Office 365 Groups or with the creation of subsites off the users OneDrive site?
The "+" sign surfaced here is just an entry point to creating an Office 365 Group - creating an Office 365 group from here, or Planner or the SharePoint home page is exactly the same. It still creates the same set of assets and in terms of Group types it creates an "Connected Outlook Group". Not sure I see the issue.
If however your concern is the sub site creation off the users a OneDrive site - YES, 100% I have an issue with this too. There is a piece of work to hide the link to the page as a first step, and down the line the functionality will be completely removed.
Please share what scenario and issue you have - very curious.
Hello Clifford - I was checking thru the available blogs and forums in the internet to see if there is a way around to get rid of the Sub Site creation option under the ODB sites.
I am interested on your below comment and would like to know if you have any additional details which can be used to hide the sub-site creation options under ODB sites.
"If however your concern is the sub site creation off the users a OneDrive site - YES, 100% I have an issue with this too. There is a piece of work to hide the link to the page as a first step, and down the line the functionality will be completely removed."
Has this been implemented yet? We too as an organisation want to disable users from creating team sites through onedrive.
Any news to this issue?
We also want to turn of the little "plus" symbol that allows users to create new Team & Communication Sites on the OneDrive page, because users are able to create new sites on their own, without the need of admin rights/permissions.Thank you,
Ben
Looking for any news/guidance on this thread. We too as an organization need the "+" button removed from OneDrive where anyone can create a Team or Communication site
Thank you
Doug
Hello Eric,
I have a doubt to clarify - Will hiding the feature of "Create Site" on prodution tenancy during business hours have any impact on the user experience or other features?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Vikas
Yeah we need this turned off too. Our SharePoint admins are not happy this is going on since in our organization they "manage" that portion of Office 365.
OneDrive should respect the Group creation policy setting set in Azure AD: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-Office-365-Group-Creation-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
- Our goal, however, is to allow for the creation of groups through Teams and Planner but not through the SharePoint page or any other mechanism.
The SharePoint side is nice as despite the Azure AD setting you can show or hide the "Create Site" link.
Was hoping there was a similar mechanism in the OneDrive space.
