As Microsoft are starting to role out Groups to all Office 365 tenants we might have the need to disable the function of creating them.
Groups are a great feature but you may not be ready for them, want to create training material before giving them to user or only allow certain users to create them.
The PowerShell script to do this is based on the Outlook Web Access policy for your organisation but you can also create other and assign them to users if you want.
set-OwaMailboxPolicy -GroupCreationEnabled $false -Identity OwaMailboxPolicy-Default
What is important here is that it does not remove Groups, it only prevent users from creating them. Here are some screenshot of the experience to the user
When Groups are added to your Office 365 Tenant
While the OWA Policy is being replicated or the user hasn’t freshed their browser
When the change has been implemented
