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cfiessinger
Microsoft
this is something we are investigating and hence do not have any further details nor timeline to share at this stage, FYI Mike McLean (OFFICE)
Rob Ellis
Mar 29, 2017Bronze Contributor
I noticed today that it is possible to add an Office 365 group into a SharePoint group - but would that expand the group members at that time?
If so, that would mean that if a new user was added to the 365 group later, they would not get permissions in SharePoint.
Is my understanding correct?
- Rob EllisMar 29, 2017Bronze ContributorJust to add - I've done some testing, and what I've seen is this:
Create 365 group - add a single user 'Rob'.
Add that 365 group to the 'Members' group of a different SharePoint site.
Check permissions for 'Rob' on that SharePoint site - shows as having permissions via 'Members' group.
Add user 'Mandy' to same 365 group
Check permissions for 'Mandy' on the SharePoint site - shows as having permissions via 'Members' group
Remove 'Mandy' from 365 group
Check permissions for 'Mandy' on the SharePoint site - shows as having no permissions.
Therefore, use of 365 Groups to control access to SharePoint sites works as expected, and it respects group membership changes.- Mar 29, 2017AFAIK, adding Groups to SPO sites has been there for a while
- Brent EllisMar 29, 2017Silver ContributorYa, the issues with it I've seen are in regards to indexing and searching content (previously didnt work for o365 groups). I **THINK** that has also recently been fixed so that it works, but check that out too.
Also check out audience targeting, cause that didnt work either, but I havent tested it again.