M365 Groups with blocked word naming policies

[rickjames]

Morning all,

 

Trying to delve into this a little further now that I have some time on my hands.

 

Essentially, I'd like to focus on our naming policy for Groups, specifically around the custom blocked words and stopping students from creating inappropriately named groups (we're a creative university so we have to allow group collaboration).

 

The issue so far is that when you upload a custom list it doesn't carry out any sub-string searches, from testing it seems anything like "[email protected]" can be easily worked around with "[email protected]"

 

I've also connected to Azure AD and ran Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | ForEach Values and it's shown EnableMSStandardBlockedWords as false, which appears to by default. Is there any documentation anywhere where I can see a definitive list of these words? A Google search has proven fruitless...

 

How do other places get around issues like this?

[Roberto]

Morning all,

 

Trying to delve into this a little further now that I have some time on my hands.

 

Essentially, I'd like to focus on our naming policy for Groups, specifically around the custom blocked words and stopping students from creating inappropriately named groups (we're a creative university so we have to allow group collaboration).

 

The issue so far is that when you upload a custom list it doesn't carry out any sub-string searches, from testing it seems anything like "[email protected]" can be easily worked around with "[email protected]"

 

I've also connected to Azure AD and ran Get-AzureADDirectorySetting | ForEach Values and it's shown EnableMSStandardBlockedWords as false, which appears to by default. Is there any documentation anywhere where I can see a definitive list of these words? A Google search has proven fruitless...

 

How do other places get around issues like this?

 

EnableMSStandardBlockedWords was deprecated in 2018. You can't find any documentation for it in Google because it's no longer a valid approach as far as MS are concerned.