how to restrict user except administrator to create team in MS teams.

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how to restrict user except administrator to create team in MS teams.

Abhishek Negi 11

My question is how to restrict user except administrator to create team in MS teams.

can someone help me to resolved this query as soon as possible.

Zubair Riaz 21 Reputation points

2022-06-09T15:49:47.16+00:00

I am having the same problem, please announce or update Teams admin center to have this option.
i don't know why this simple things cannot be happen.
Budi Santoso 16 Reputation points

2022-07-08T09:04:11.413+00:00

Everyone in my organization created "Temporary Teams" and leaving lot of garbage.
Now I don't know how to handle that huge number of sites in Sharepoint.
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Douglas Jarden 11 Reputation points

2022-09-06T01:05:23.817+00:00

Is there no change to this?

To add salt to injury, I'm having grief when trying to use the PS module,
It installs (i removed the standard one and install the preview), but it does not recognise the commands or allow me to connect to AzureAD
"The term 'Connect-AzureAD' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,"

I have set the policy in Teams Policies to prevent the creation of shared and private channels, though that does not change the individual Teams, so I dont know what good it is.
Now I am manually going through the settings on each Team, there are 65 and flicking the switchs for each.
It would be nice if there were some global settings here for this.
Werner 0 Reputation points

2024-01-10T10:36:08.9133333+00:00

Hi, PowerShell scripts did not help much. We had to run MS Power Automate to assist in getting all the group info (EXCO didn't want just the names, creation dates from the groups, they wanted to see what files are in the groups/channels and who has access to it) and created a Power BI report for EXCO to decide which groups they want to archive/remove... Then we had to build another Power Automation to actually do the archiving and removals....
TucanSam1717 0 Reputation points

2024-12-04T21:12:21.3066667+00:00

Yes this is and has been a sore spot for I.T. people and MS. Why with each step forward they limit I.T. people running corporations to run their businesses and systems as they see fit for their company? Why was their not built into TEAMS from the start "disable users ability to create TEAMs" and the same for MS365 groups with the ability to allow each so WE can decide how and why we want things done. MS cannot build these things in as trying to do what they want or think they know best for our company and all the thousands and thousands of different companies out there instead of giving I.T. staff options and more granular controls. I can as of course we all can here, list many more limiting factors MS built in trying to tie I.T. hands (i.e. let us choose the size and if we want to allow the use of OneDrive - do we want as much data sprawl as humanly possible t our firms? and etc...).
Gary Herbstman 5 Reputation points

2025-01-18T17:43:06.91+00:00

Here is a good article that includes some nice PowerShell functions to both retrieve and create the restriction using the Microsoft.Graph modules: How to restrict users from creating Teams and Groups in Microsoft 365.

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Zubair Riaz 21 Reputation points

2022-06-09T15:49:47.16+00:00

I am having the same problem, please announce or update Teams admin center to have this option.
i don't know why this simple things cannot be happen.
Budi Santoso 16 Reputation points

2022-07-08T09:04:11.413+00:00

Everyone in my organization created "Temporary Teams" and leaving lot of garbage.
Now I don't know how to handle that huge number of sites in Sharepoint.
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Douglas Jarden 11 Reputation points

2022-09-06T01:05:23.817+00:00

Is there no change to this?

To add salt to injury, I'm having grief when trying to use the PS module,
It installs (i removed the standard one and install the preview), but it does not recognise the commands or allow me to connect to AzureAD
"The term 'Connect-AzureAD' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet,"

I have set the policy in Teams Policies to prevent the creation of shared and private channels, though that does not change the individual Teams, so I dont know what good it is.
Now I am manually going through the settings on each Team, there are 65 and flicking the switchs for each.
It would be nice if there were some global settings here for this.
Werner 0 Reputation points

2024-01-10T10:36:08.9133333+00:00

Hi, PowerShell scripts did not help much. We had to run MS Power Automate to assist in getting all the group info (EXCO didn't want just the names, creation dates from the groups, they wanted to see what files are in the groups/channels and who has access to it) and created a Power BI report for EXCO to decide which groups they want to archive/remove... Then we had to build another Power Automation to actually do the archiving and removals....
TucanSam1717 0 Reputation points

2024-12-04T21:12:21.3066667+00:00

Yes this is and has been a sore spot for I.T. people and MS. Why with each step forward they limit I.T. people running corporations to run their businesses and systems as they see fit for their company? Why was their not built into TEAMS from the start "disable users ability to create TEAMs" and the same for MS365 groups with the ability to allow each so WE can decide how and why we want things done. MS cannot build these things in as trying to do what they want or think they know best for our company and all the thousands and thousands of different companies out there instead of giving I.T. staff options and more granular controls. I can as of course we all can here, list many more limiting factors MS built in trying to tie I.T. hands (i.e. let us choose the size and if we want to allow the use of OneDrive - do we want as much data sprawl as humanly possible t our firms? and etc...).
Gary Herbstman 5 Reputation points

2025-01-18T17:43:06.91+00:00

Here is a good article that includes some nice PowerShell functions to both retrieve and create the restriction using the Microsoft.Graph modules: How to restrict users from creating Teams and Groups in Microsoft 365.

Answer 1

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,756 Microsoft External Staff

Hi AbhishekNegi,

If you want to restrict users to create team, it needs to disable the ability to create groups in Office 365. Since Office 365 group is integrated with many Office 365 services, such as Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, Yammer. If you'd like to disable the creation of teams, all the other services will be also disabled. Currently there's no way to just disable the team creation for Teams users only.

For more details about how to disable this feature, you could refer to this article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/create-groups/manage-creation-of-groups?view=o365-worldwide.

Anderson, James 11 Reputation points

2022-01-17T16:43:06.173+00:00

When will this change as out system is a complete mess because of users having this ability. we disabled it using Powershell and some microsoft update has seemed to re enable this.
Iain Anderson 16 Reputation points

2022-01-21T16:19:59.353+00:00

I've had to the exact same issue. I ran the powershell update to restrict it to admins only, the other day I noticed it was re-enabled again when users started to create new Teams groups.............needs a simple button in Teams admin center to disable it.
Sumit Valecha 1 Reputation point

2022-05-11T02:01:45.733+00:00

Whole MS community and users have been asking for this feature since the days Teams have launched but still you guys havent given this simple feature to turn Off the ability of careting teams. what is the reason behind not implementing it even if after so much noise on it?
Nick House 1 Reputation point

2022-06-09T13:31:36.06+00:00

We are trying to disable this for our organization as well and within minutes of having a specific security group that disables the group creation function, it gets turned back on. We then have to re-run the PowerShell script again.....

What a pain. Looks like currently you might have to run a daily PS script to disable this functionality.
Ed M 0 Reputation points

2023-10-05T14:28:20.4466667+00:00

@Sharon Zhao-MSFT would you know how to revert the change suggested in the link you provided? We were controlling access to create Teams channels via group. We've been asked to revert this and open it to all users. Any help is appreciated.

Answer 2

Eric Jones 0

Budi Santoso I would recommend sending out an org wide communication and ask them to backup whatever information that decided to put on their respective sites. Give them a month and then delete them all. It will, however, remove the team site, the documents, Channel, and distribution list.

Budi Santoso 16 Reputation points

2023-04-11T02:44:07.5266667+00:00

What the right way to delete them?
From sharepoint site admin?

Answer 3

Deepak Mane 0

Check this.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/sensitivity-labels
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites?view=o365-worldwide

https://sharegate.com/blog/guide-how-to-use-apply-sensitivity-labels-microsoft-teams
https://messageops.com/how-to-use-sensitivity-labels-in-the-microsoft-teams-admin-center/
https://blogs.perficient.com/2020/03/08/sensitivity-labels-for-microsoft-teams-office-365-groups-and-sharepoint-sites-public-preview/

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