Control: 1.19 Ensure that 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure Portals' is set to 'No'

Description

Restrict Microsoft 365 group creation to administrators only.

Restricting Microsoft 365 group creation to administrators only ensures that creation of Microsoft 365 groups is controlled by the administrator. Appropriate groups should be created and managed by the administrator and group creation rights should not be delegated to any other user.

Remediation

From Console

1. Log in to Azure Active Directory
2. Go to Groups
3. Go to General in setting section
4. Set Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure Portals to No

Note: By default, Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure Portals is set to Yes.