Policy: Azure > CIS v2.0 > 01 - Identity and Access Management > 1.21 Ensure that 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' is set to 'No'

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 2

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.

Resource Types

This policy targets the following resource types:

Azure > Active Directory > Directory

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

Azure > CIS v2.0 > 01 - Identity and Access Management

Azure > CIS v2.0 > 01 - Identity and Access Management > 1.21 Ensure that 'Users can create Microsoft 365 groups in Azure portals, API or PowerShell' is set to 'No' > Attestation

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per Azure > CIS v2.0 > 01 - Identity and Access Management`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per Azure > CIS v2.0 > 01 - Identity and Access Management` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark using attestation`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v071406

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/azure-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0121"