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How to manage O365 Group membership through AD Security Groups and/or nested O365 Groups?
2. AFAIK, you cannot add security to Groups to an Office 365 Group
- Brent EllisNov 09, 2016Silver Contributor
I would love to see this feature added.
Or maybe as a compromise, as part of the Dynamic list membership, add some kind of rule to say "if you are a member of this other group..."
- Morten MyrstadNov 13, 2016Steel Contributor
Thanks for your comment jcgonzalezmartin! Even if I do´nt like the answer:). If this is the case, I will then have no easy way to manage a membership list, based on a company, department or interest level, and thereafter add them as a group to an O365 group. Dynamic membership will for many not be a good solution as it will require an AD (and HR system) with almost 100% quality, will be out of reach for a lot of companies, because of the price tag put on Azure AD Premium and nor will cover all use cases. To me, nested O365 groups and / or the possibility to add security groups to O365 groups should be the way going forward. Can anyone from Microsoft help to illuminate this issue, for instance danholme?
- cfiessingerNov 14, 2016Microsoft
1- what do you mean by "Outlook widget"? Once you add a DL to an Office 365 Group it will automatically expand all the members and add each individually (there is no tie to the DL).
2- For organizational group, Azure AD dynamic membership will help and understood that there is a cost associated with it.
- Morten MyrstadNov 14, 2016Steel Contributor
Thanks for reaching out, Christophe!
1- Maybe not the correct wording, but with widget I just mean the form you use when you are creating / provisioning an O365 group. As you are describing it, the advantage you can gain by adding a DL group (w members) or an O365 group (w members) to another O365 group, is just a one time advantage. While my hope is that a relation between groups could be nested.
2- Today I can add an AD Security Group to a Sharepoint teamsite, through the Share-function in Sharepoint. Therefore I don´t understand why I can´t add an AD Security Group to a CONNECTED teamsite, without having to pay a premium?
- Jamie KovalskyOct 30, 2018Copper ContributorThis is crazy. How can you use O365 groups to apply permissions and not support nested security groups.
When can we expect this feature. It has been over 2 years now.