Office 365 - Distribution Groups

[nelliott]

Hi All,

 

I am after some advice, I have been asked by our head to configure our email system so distribution groups can't be created by end-users and only by ICT Support.

Is it possible to do this within Office 365?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Edu-IT]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2580991

[nelliott]

Hi @Edu-IT

 

I have already followed this guide and completed the steps below:

 

1 - Sign in to the Office 365 portal as an admin, click Admin, and then click Exchange to open the Exchange admin center.

2 - In the left navigation pane click permissions, and then click user roles.

3 - Double-click Default Role Assignment Policy.

4 - Click to clear the MyDistributionGroups check box and the MyDistributionGroupMembership check box.

5 - Click Save.

 

This updated role assignment policy has then been assigned to the end-users.

 

However, users are still able to create groups in both OWA and their desktop Outlook client.

 

Any ideas?

[MrFrostmaul]

It can take a few hours or days in one of my cases to fully push to all users.

[nelliott]

I changed the policy a couple of weeks ago, so it should have had plenty of time to deploy to end users.

 

I raised the post in the fear I had configured the wrong policy in correctly.

[Edu-IT]

Are you sure it's not this, as opposed to DG's?

 

Disable Office 365 Group creations | BFC Networks

[nelliott]

Thanks @Edu-IT, that has done the trick!