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The Twelve Days of Blog-mas: No.4 - Sync Cloud Groups from AAD/Entra ID back to Active Directory

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Dec 01, 2023
"Number four?" <spoken in the deli counter attendant's dead-pan voice>   For a loooong time, you and I have been waiting for the ability to sync ‘cloud-born-and-managed’ security groups (and thei...
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Dec 03, 2023

I just tested and I see what you're referring to ... there is an option in the M365 Admin Center to create a "Distribution List" - and it appears that these 'groups' are NOT in scope for group writeback to AD.  I'll see if I can find out if that's planned or not.