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MVP

Sep 20, 2017

Group Naming Policy

Now in preview https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Office-365-Groups-Naming-Policy-6ceca4d3-cad1-4532-9f0f-d469dfbbb552?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US The only surprising thing I see is "Group nami...

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cfiessinger

Microsoft

Sep 20, 2017

The Azure AD Premium requirement was communicated last April in this blog post: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/04/06/whats-new-in-office-365-groups-for-april-2017/ & good feedback for our licensing specialists

TonyRedmond

MVP

Sep 21, 2017

Hi,

I see:

*Azure Active Directory Premium is required.

at the bottom of the page. I am not sure that this effectively communicates the need for a premium license for a feature that is a) free in its Exchange distribution group naming policy equivalent and b) relatively easy to impose through PowerShell scripting. I know that the answer is that you're not licensing a single feature but a group of features, but still, this one sticks a tad.

Jennifer Lawson
Copper Contributor
Oct 19, 2017
Why is a P1 license required to be able to apply a naming policy to the Office 365 groups? That should be made available as part of the free Azure AD license.
- TonyRedmond
  MVP
  Oct 19, 2017
  Also discussed here: https://www.petri.com/aad-licensing-groups-teams
  
  If you don't like this, tell your local Microsoft representative and ask them to pass the message to the AAD licensing team.