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How to manage O365 Group membership through AD Security Groups and/or nested O365 Groups?
I have two issues concerning management of membership in Groups: 1. In the Outlook Widget, I see that I can add another O365 Group as a member in an O365 Group. But what does it mean? It seems like ...
Had this very discussion today on a client site - large EDU customer. Now we do have AAD P1 licenses so can avail of Dynamic Groups in Azure. Seems sensible therefore to base membership off of the Department attribute - but, with this client they tell me that Department names often change so we'd end up with complex membership generation rules.
I can only assume the thinking here by Microsoft is that on-premise AD Security groups, manged by Admin, continue to secure local resources and that Office 365 Groups are managed, not by Admin but by the end users. So yes, we end up with two sets of groups essentially.
Not a great end result.