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Office 365 groups creating Classing Workspaces (Groups) in Power BI Service
Hi DebbieE ,
Yes. Actually there already be one topic about preventing create classic workspace automatically when create Office 365 group as mentioned in my previous post. If the number of votes reaches a certain number, the relevant team will develop this feature so that this feature may be implemented in the near future. You can vote here and add comments to speed up the process. Thank you.
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Rena
Hi DebbieE ,
You can contact the global admin of Office 365 and request him to add you as Owner of these groups which need to be deleted in the future in Microsoft 365 admin center. Please refer this documentation about how to find the global amdin of Office 365.
Then you can execute the same operations as before: upgrade these classic workspace to New experience workspace and delete them.
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Rena
that will be slightly easier but Office 365 groups are created all the time. Its going to need to be cleaned up as an ongoing project. I dont understand the decision to let every Office 365 group become an App workspace ?
Hi DebbieE ,
Because you still want to keep these Office 365 groups, then we can't directly delete the classic workspace in Power BI Service or delete Office 365 group in Office admin center. These 2 methods will delete both of the classic workspace and Office 365 group. However, after upgraded, the new workspace isn’t tied to the Office 365 Group anymore. That means that if you delete the Office 365 Group, the workspace won’t be deleted. Also, if you delete the workspace, the Office 365 Group won’t be deleted.
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Rena
But why create the classic workspace in the first place within power BI? People are creating these Office 365 groups for reasons unrelated to Power BI? Also they are classic Workspaces. In order to work with them you need to upgrade them anyway. Im genuinely confuised as to why you think Creating classic App Workspaces for every single Office 365 group is a good thing?
Hi DebbieE ,
When you create Office 365 group in Office 365, a classic workspace will be created automatically. Similarly, it will also automatically create a associated Office 365 group in Office 365 when you create a classic workspace in Power BI Service. And when you delete the classic workspace (as an Admin) in Power BI Service, the associated 0365 group also be deleted. Vice versa(delete 0365 group will also delete the related classic workspace).This is the current situation. . . Therefore, the official recommendation is to use the new experience workspace which will not automatically create a 0365 group. But it allows you to link OneDrive folders to the workspace, you just have to do it explicitly.
There is one topic about preventing teams from autocreating App Workspace shared on Power BI Ideas, you can vote it up and add your comments there to improve Power BI on this feature .
In addition, when create new group in Office 365, please try the method in this link and check whether it can prevent to create classic workspace in Power BI Service.
Best Regards
Rena