o365 Groups/ SharePoint and Limits

Question

Hello all,

Groups is interesting and works great for what we do just a few questions on them if possible please.

There is a 250 group limit creation per user, if we have 200 000 not that all will make a group that is a lot of groups.

Groups storage count toward SharePoint Online storage, that is fine however it looks like each groups create a site.

SharePoint limit is 500 000 site collections and 2000 site in a site collection.

The questions is can i redirect groups to a new site direction?

Does the 250 limit count towards the 2000 site collection limit on SharePoint?

When teams are released it is build on Groups so the limit will be the same? 

Thank you

Answer 1

Hi Leon,

By default, Office 365 users can create up to 250 Office 365 Groups each. Office 365 admins have no limit on the number of Office 365 Groups that they can create. The default maximum number of Office 365 Groups that an Office 365 organization can have is currently 500,000, but can be increased by request. 

Moreover, we can block all users in the tenant from creating Office 365 Groups, or allow the security group the ability to create Office 365 Groups.  The number of group each user creates can't be set to just 2 or 3.

For the details, please refer to Manage Office 365 Group Creation

Thanks,

Felix

Answer 2

Hi Leon,

The Office 365 group is the same as an SharePoint Online site collection. It can't be redirected to a new site.  500,000 site collections can be created per tenant. A user can create 250 Office 365 groups, an admin can create up to default organization limit of 500,000 groups.

Microsoft Teams is built upon Office 365 Groups and provides a new way to access shared assets for an Office 365 Group, the limit is the same.

Moreover, here are some articles for your reference:

Office 365 groups - Admin help

SharePoint Online software boundaries and limits

Administrator settings for Microsoft Teams

Frequently asked questions about Microsoft Teams – Admin Help

Thanks,

Felix

Answer 3

Thank you Felix,

That was what I was afraid of, 500k groups is not a lot in a place that 250 000 accounts.

If I am reading it all correct.

Specially if groups or teams are the way forward, which I believe it is. 

Is the only way around this to have a extra tenancy? 

Also i could not find it on search but is there a way to limit groups each user can create to just 2 or 3 ? 

thank you