PIM Manager settings · Settings > Approvals & policy

Refuse to create a group that has no owner

Key	RequireGroupOwners
Where	Settings > Approvals & policy > Groups
Type	On / off
Default	Off

What it does

When the engine creates a group in Microsoft Entra ID it looks for an owner: the owners or sponsor on the group's definition, or the contact of its department. This switch decides what happens when none of them resolves to a person.

When enabled

When on: the engine does not create the group and reports the failure on Jobs, naming the group. The group is created on a later run once an owner is set.

When disabled

When off (the default): the group is created without an owner and the run says so in a warning every time. An owner set later is attached by a later run without touching the group.

Risk and how to reverse it

On: a definition without an owner blocks its group, and everything that depends on the group, until someone fills the owner in -- on an estate where many definitions have no owner, most new groups will not be created. Off: groups can exist that nobody is responsible for. Reversible: switch it back; groups already created are not changed.

Requires

SuperAdmin to change it. The engine reads it at its next run.