Disable group creation by users switch for Enterprises

[keith_boykin]

We need to the ability to prevent users from creating custom groups in PowerBI. This can be done at the OWA level for 365, but can't be prevented in PowerBI interface. This leads to clutter and uncontrolled access/management for IT Staff

[nishalit]

Looks like this was fixed a while back. Here are the directions to disable group creation. https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Control-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

[sboudreau]

Totally agree. The fact it creates groups in AD and we cant enforce a naming convention or stop users from going crazy

[leeberg]

Essential for some of our deployments!

[kposer]

We need to the ability to prevent users from creating custom groups in PowerBI. This can be done at the OWA level for 365, but can't be prevented in PowerBI interface.

[Ed_Saunders]

Same here. Uncontrolled creation of O365 groups through PowerBI is problematic for us.

[nicholas_morris]

This should be a feature, along with control of creating Content Packs, and Data Rights, of an PowerBI Admin role.

[stephen_long]

How can we allow POWERBI users from creating O365 Mailbox groups. Where are the controls?

[pmacarthur]

this is currently a good tool for a very small number of analytical users. but as it stands now, we cant use this on any sort of scale because we cant centrally control the creation of these groups or the distribution of content in general. it is manageable on a very small scale, but IT in our organization cant spend time policing group creation let alone deal with the training issues that using groups would create for us. they are intuitive, but not to everyone. unfortunately we may have to drop the power BI implementation all together w may not be a very big company, but that is several hundred pro licenses MS will be missing out on. our intention was to put dashboards in front of the majority of our users.

[ac429]

Not only does this create unified groups that we don't have the time to monitor, it also creates site collections in the background which don't show up in the SharePoint central admin, but does take up our quota! That's fairly unethical. =|