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No Organizational Units? Can't auto-assign or sort by groups?
You need to adjust your expectations and/or do some additional research - neither Office 365 nor Azure are positioned as replacement for "traditional" AD. If that's what you are looking for, Azure AD Domain Services is the closest you can get.
I have worked out a solution to implement Organizational Units on Office 365 Admin Center.
- We are not going to be using Outlook email, because we already use Google G Suite GMail, and it is unnecessary to have duplicate Outlook accounts too. So the Display Name of the Microsoft accounts is not particularly important.
- The Display Name field seems to be tolerant of punctuation and symbols.
- The Display Name text field is rather long for unknown reasons.
Fine, I will stick my Organizational Unit categories in the Display Name field:
And thus the mess that is thousands of staff and students in a K-12 public school being randomly sorted by name only, is suddenly divided into logical categories, and can be sorted by those logical categories. Amazing!
The design of the Office 365 Admin Console is unimaginably dumb. Why would anyone at Microsoft think it is a good idea to not provide support for customizable account categorization and then not be able to sort accounts by those custom categories?
