Office 365 Groups

[Boredguy]

Microsoft have active the new group features in Office 365, which is all nice for advanced sharing between users and all that.

 

However, as expect, our darling students have spotted it and already created one group with a iffy name.

Now looking in the admin panel I can't see anything regarding configuring it or removing the functionality from groups of users.

 

I certainly want to delete the group that they have created asap, but not sure how at present.

 

Anyone else come across this feature and it's control commands. Powershell flags are fine.

[woodham]

go into o365 admin>exchange

 

then select groups under reciepents highlight said group and click on the trash can at the top

the group will then be deleted

[Boredguy]

The new groups does not appear in the normal Exchange groups section.

I have gotten round it for now by logging in as the group "Admin" and deleting it via that account.

 

Now to work out how we can turn the feature off for students for now.

[Boredguy]

Ah... Office 365 Admin -> groups shows the new "collaborative Group" instead it of being under the Exchange Admin -> Groups as expected.

 

Now to still try and work out how to turn the feature off to students (or at least those that can't behave themselves)

[woodham]

im sure there will be some powershell to do this but I don't know it

[Boredguy]

I was hoping something might be published today as there was a Q&A session last night on it by Microsoft but nothing so far.

 

At least I can removed groups if any unsavoury ones pop up which is the main thing.

[Haptic]

It really depends on how you want to control this aspect of the system and how you want to do it. I don’t know your config so can’t be specific with a fix all script for you here but I would be looking at changing permissions for your student user group using one of the following in combination with the group cmdlets.

 

Set-RoleAssignmentPolicy

Set-SiteMailboxProvisioningPolicy

 

The first of the two are probably the most useful to you, feel free to ask more?

 

Andy

[Boredguy]

Cheers @CPLTD, I'll give them a whirl tomorrow and see what happens.

[Boredguy]

Found the solution to turn off the ability for students to create a new group.

 

The following will turn it off for all users (unless you have created a separate OwaMailbox Policy for students which we have)

Set-OwaMailboxPolicy -Identity OwaMailboxPolicy-Default -GroupCreationEnabled $false