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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 ...

Office 365 Groups

Rob Ellis

Bronze 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 Ellis

Bronze Contributor

Mar 29, 2017

Just 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.

jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Mar 29, 2017
AFAIK, adding Groups to SPO sites has been there for a while
- Brent Ellis
  Silver Contributor
  Mar 29, 2017
  Ya, 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.