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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
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, 2017
AFAIK, 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.