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Morten Myrstad
Nov 09, 2016Steel Contributor
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 ...
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
Mar 29, 2017Bronze Contributor
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.
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.