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Is there a way to disable users from creating office 365 groups?
open a Powershell session to Exchange online
export the settings of the default owamailbox policy
Get-OwaMailboxPolicy -identity default | Export-Csv C:\policy.csv
then create a new-owamailboxpolicy with the same settings as default
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351067(v=exchg.160).aspx
after that edit the policy
Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -GroupCreationEnabled $false -Identity OwaMailboxPolicy:NewPolicy
And finally assign the policy to the user
Set-CASMailbox -Identity user@domain.com -OwaMailboxPolicy:NewPolicy
Keep in mind, if you block users from creating Groups, in Planner for instance, they cannot create a new Plan.
Bear in mind that the approach to disable Groups creation via OWA policy is only going to work when trying to create Groups from OWA. Your users will be able to create Groups from any other App in Office 365: Outlook in the desktop, Teams or Planner....in regards of the error you are getting when trying to paste an external URL, I have faced the same problem lately...something has changed in the Tech Community that prevents to add external URLs. AnnaChu can you help here?
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
Bear in mind that the approach to disable Groups creation via OWA policy is only going to work when trying to create Groups from OWA. Your users will be able to create Groups from any other App in Office 365: Outlook in the desktop, Teams or Planner...
Is it? That means there is no solid way to prevent users from creating Office 365 groups? Ideally user should not create from any app.
There is a way by configuring the Azure AD Policy. You can find the the URL of the related support article in the attachment to this message
Same article I am referring to earlier. This article is saying create a group which will have access to create office 365 groups. Disable group creation permission globally for every user by default. Add the required users to the group for whom I am intend to give permission for group creation.
But I want to handle in bit another way. I just want to disable for only one user, not globally. Want to know is there any such feasibility!
