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Recommendations on Naming Conventions for O365 Groups
Hi All, thanks for starting this thread Brent and others for the helpful responses. I am looking for a solution that balances the needs of the teams that manage and look after AD as well as the end user. My concern using the same pre-fix is both UX and UI related - and end user looking for a specific group in a list of groups that all start with "G" or "Group" etc. will have a hard time finding it - it's an extra "mental tax" to using the product. From a UI perspective, using pre-fixes also means that it's harder to read the full name of a group in the UI. On the flip side, I can completely understand the needs of the AD and Exchange teams.
Having watched both the MS session and Martina's session it seems to me it should be possible to balance these in one of two ways:
1 - use a only suffix instead of a pre-fix
2 - allow the users to create the groups as they wish and, as it is created, write it into the directory with the pre-fix/suffix of choice. Creation is easy, the display name makes sense and the needs in AD are met
In your experience are these feasible options (I do not come from a technical background)? Thanks for any input
We use dl_ for our distribution lists. r_ for our conference rooms and therefore grp_ for our groups when created through Outlook endpoints.
Would like to see Azure AD group name convention and group lifecyle management coming out of preview so we can start using it though.