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Disabling site creation in the SharePoint admin center
Nope and Nope. The other way around also doesnt work - if you block Groups creation, people will still be able to create sites.
Greetings all,
So we have no ability to disable the 'sprawl' of team sites that are basically hidden site collections to the poor SP Admin who's lost control over who can create sites. Why did we did we allow the SP Admin to hide his create site menu option within his O365 space but suffer no ability to control O365 teams and groups laying down team sites.
I'm not clear why we have enabled SharePoint sprawl all over again.
Sorry to be blunt.
Scott
- I'm not sure If I'm following Vasil's logic here but if you disable self-service site creation in SPO Admin Center and you also configure who can create Groups by means of the Azure AD Policiy you are then controlling in fact who can create "hidden" SPO team sites: only the people that can create Groups as configured with the Azure AD policy
Thanks for the reply. Is there no simple way to fully disable sites being created by Groups/Teams such that no stub sites are provisioned when a group/team is created?
Imagine we already have an Intranet, we already have 100's of sites. WHy would we ever want to have sites auto provisioned in the first place?
I do see value in site provisioning for the new customer, but if we already have a mature SharePoint Intranet, the sprawl coming from site collections appearing is painful to manage, delete, and govern all together.
Just my opinion. ;)
