Hi everyone,
This video will show how to prevent or limit users from creating groups in Office 365. By default, all users can create Microsoft 365 groups.
When you limit who can create a group, it affects all services that rely on groups for access, including:
- Outlook
- SharePoint
- Yammer
- MS Teams
- MS Stream
- Planner
- Power BI (Classic)
- Project for the Web/Roadmap
PowerShell commands:
$GroupName = “<GroupName>”
$AllowGroupCreation = $False
Connect-AzureAD
$settingsObjectID = (Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | Where-object -Property Displayname -Value “Group.Unified” -EQ).id
if(!$settingsObjectID)
{
$template = Get-AzureADDirectorySettingTemplate | Where-object {$_.displayname -eq “group.unified”}
$settingsCopy = $template.CreateDirectorySetting()
New-AzureADDirectorySetting -DirectorySetting $settingsCopy
$settingsObjectID = (Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | Where-object -Property Displayname -Value “Group.Unified” -EQ).id
}
$settingsCopy = Get-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id $settingsObjectID
$settingsCopy[“EnableGroupCreation”] = $AllowGroupCreation
if($GroupName)
{
$settingsCopy[“GroupCreationAllowedGroupId”] = (Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString $GroupName).objectid
} else {
$settingsCopy[“GroupCreationAllowedGroupId”] = $GroupName
}
Set-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id $settingsObjectID -DirectorySetting $settingsCopy
(Get-AzureADDirectorySetting -Id $settingsObjectID).Values
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