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Manage automatic creation of direct reports group
THANK YOU all for your feedback, please see an update in this new thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Update-Auto-creation-of-Direct-Reports-group-in-Outlook-MC96611/m-p/55318#M2740
MicrosoftI would certainly prefer it to be dynamic if we were going to leave it turned on, but I can understand why it isn't and probably never will be from a Microsoft level. Office 365 is what now, over 90 million users or something? Imagine the overhead of a dynamic Groups membership process running at a high enough frequency to not cause gaps for that amount of people.
Perhaps a good opportunity for some documentation and guidance around the requirements from a license perspective, and the actual steps for turning on dynamic membership for this scenario using Azure AD features and what not. Give people a way to convert this into something valuable if they don't agree with the base functionality.
This whole thing may have been a bit heavy handed, but this is only going to keep happening in various forms. We all signed up for stuff like this when we embraced Office 365. I've learned to go with the flow and keep my ear to the ground, where in the past I didn't have to pay much attention because no one could impact my environment but me. That is no longer true.
Most definitely some learning to be had here for the Groups team in the future.
Here's an article on using attributes to create dynamic membership: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-accessmanagement-groups-with-advanced-rules
Hope that helps!