What is the best way to handle Teams sprawl? #M365AMA

In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:

“Does anyone have any good methods of dealing with “Teams sprawl.” I’ve inherited an instance, and to say it is a mess would be an understatement, we have more teams than we have people. I’ve already turned of the “Create Team” function for most people to stop it getting worse, but now I have to sort out this disaster. “

Check out the discussion here:

 

Participating in this discussion were:

• Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
• Sharon Weaver @sharoneweaver
• Shari Oswald @shortcutshari
• Hal Hostetler @tvwizard
• Kirsty McGrath @kirstymcgrath13

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

• Sooooo much great content out there on this topic. Here’s a blog post and slides from a presentation last year: Essentials for Microsoft Teams Governance [https://www.buckleyplanet.com/2022/09/essentials-for-microsoft-teams-governance.html]
• An article I wrote 2 years back: Managing Content Sprawl in Microsoft 365 [https://www.egnyte.com/blog/post/managing-content-sprawl-in-microsoft-365]
• A nice overview of 3rd party solutions to help solve the problem: Microsoft Teams Sprawl: What It Is and How Partners Can Fix It, via @rcpmag [https://rcpmag.com/articles/2021/10/20/microsoft-teams-sprawl.aspx]
• And finally, a nice article by Microsoft’s Shelly Avery, who makes the point that I often make: Sprawl is not all bad [https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/healthcare-and-life-sciences/why-microsoft-teams-quot-sprawl-quot-is-the-best-thing-that-has/ba-p/844387]