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1.21 Ensure that 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' is set 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​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
  2. Select Azure Active Directory
  3. Then Groups
  4. Select General in setting
  5. Ensure that Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell is set to No

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​

  1. From Azure Home select the Portal Menu
  2. Select Azure Active Directory
  3. Then Groups
  4. Select General in settings
  5. Set Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell to No

Please note that at this point of 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