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SharePoint Online - Modern UI Target audience
Audience targetting is an awesome and very rarely used feature, its unfortunate that the compilation takes so long. The only other way you can handle this is through Search Driven content and Permissions.
I personally think if you are willing to go through the initial pains of setting up Audience Targetting rules the benefits far outweigh the pitfalls. The only challenge will be once the compilation is complete then when a new user joins the organisation then they will see more targetted informationa week prior to joining.
This can be solved by onboarding a user' at least a week prior to joining the business which most enterprise companies should be doing anyway.
Regards, Martin
Not 100% sure whether you can use the old SharePoint Groups, but if these are Office365 groups then yes you should have no issue because these exist in Active Directory. The basic overview is here - https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/overview-of-audience-targeting-in-modern-sharepoint-sites-68113d1b-be99-4d4c-a61c-73b087f48a81
Audiences use in SharePoint Online compile on a weekly schedule, this can impact on your testing if you are trying to test this quickly. So you have to configure your Audience and wait for these to be compiled before you have a real world test.
In SharePoint on Premise, this could be manually compiled making testing really simple.
Hi Martin Kleynhans , Kannan_Kalisamy575
Audience targeting on modern SharePoint pages and news is based on groups on Azure AD, and SharePoint Groups cannot be utilized. Also audience complilation is required for "classic" audience targeting feature and this modern one is relying on search. Results might not be available in real time, at least I have noticed that it might take some time to targeting actually kick in.