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Morten Myrstad's avatar
Morten Myrstad
Steel Contributor
Nov 09, 2016

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 ...
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jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Nov 09, 2016
1. Nested Groups are not supported in Groups so what you are seeing is correct: when adding a Group, you are adding the Group members and no the group itself
2. AFAIK, you cannot add security to Groups to an Office 365 Group
  • Brent Ellis's avatar
    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 09, 2016

    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 Myrstad's avatar
    Morten Myrstad
    Steel Contributor
    Nov 13, 2016

    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?

    • cfiessinger's avatar
      cfiessinger
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      Nov 14, 2016

      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 Myrstad's avatar
        Morten Myrstad
        Steel Contributor
        Nov 14, 2016

        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 Kovalsky's avatar
    Jamie Kovalsky
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 30, 2018
    This 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.

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