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How to deal with Security groups in SharePoint and Office 365 groups
Hi there,
SharePoint groups will continue to exist as SharePoint-only entities that can be utilized for permissions purposes. You are correct that you cannot manage these in admin portal, and we have no plans to enable that.
For group connected sites (including classic sites you connect to new Office 365 Groups), we do ensure that the 3 default SP groups exists (i.e. Owners, Members, Visitors). While you will continue to be able to add your own SP groups to sites, any custom permissions you employ on site resources do not map across to Office 365 Group membership. This is an important point - that while SharePoint will allow you to break permissions inheritance on resources, if you do so you can end up with members of the Office 365 Group *not* having access to those resources.Hope this helps.
Tejas
MicrosoftHi there,
SharePoint groups will continue to exist as SharePoint-only entities that can be utilized for permissions purposes. You are correct that you cannot manage these in admin portal, and we have no plans to enable that.
For group connected sites (including classic sites you connect to new Office 365 Groups), we do ensure that the 3 default SP groups exists (i.e. Owners, Members, Visitors). While you will continue to be able to add your own SP groups to sites, any custom permissions you employ on site resources do not map across to Office 365 Group membership. This is an important point - that while SharePoint will allow you to break permissions inheritance on resources, if you do so you can end up with members of the Office 365 Group *not* having access to those resources.
Hope this helps.
Tejas
Tejas MehtaI've noticed that the Office 365 Members group appears to be added to the SharePoint members group. The Office 365 Owners group does not appear to be added to the SharePoint owners group. The reason this came up was that I was doing some working using SharePoint search which still relies on SharePoint groups for security trimming. I wasn't seeing a lot of files that others were seeing and started a bit of digging. Once I added the Owners to the SharePoint Owners group, things began to appear in search for me. Is there a reason why the Office 365 Members group is added to the SharePoint group but the Owners group is not? This was on a Modern Team site, feeding content to SharePoint search.
