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Set 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' to 'No' (Manual)
Profile Applicability
• Level 2
Description
Restrict Microsoft 365 group creation to administrators only.
Rationale
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.
Impact
Enabling this setting could create a number of requests that would need to be managed by an administrator.
Audit
From Azure Portal
- From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
- Select
Azure Active Directory
- Then
Groups
- Select
General
in setting - Ensure that
Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell
is set toNo
Please note that at this point of time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security assessment for this recommendation.
Remediation
From Azure Portal
- From Azure Home select the Portal Menu.
- Select Azure Active Directory.
- Select Groups.
- Select General under Settings.
- Set Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell to No.
Please note that at this point in time, there is no Azure CLI or other API commands available to programmatically conduct security configuration for this recommendation.
References
https://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2017/01/disable-office-365-groups-2/
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Control-who-can-create-Office-365-Groups-4c46c8cb-17d0-44b5-9776-005fced8e618
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-6-define-identity-and-privileged-access-strategy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-governance-strategy#gs-2-define-enterprise-segmentation-strategy
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-1-protect-and-limit-highly-privileged-users
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-5-automate-entitlement-management
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/benchmark/azure/security-controls-v3-privileged-access#pa-2-restrict-administrative-access-to-business-critical-systems