Nov 08 2016 07:53 PM
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 I am then adding the individual members from the other groups as members, not the Group as such? Or is the meaning of this that I should be able to manage individuals for instance in a "mother" group, and then add the group itself to another group as a nested group? Why don´t I then see the group in the membership list?
2. Security Groups and mail-enabled security groups seems to be a better way to manage a company or department team on a regular basis. But it does not seem that I am able to add an AD Security Group as a member in an Office 365 Group. Am I missing something, and/or is this on the roadmap?
Jun 23 2017 04:40 AM
Hey all... we've just added a solution in our product that allows you to associate an O365 Group with one or more AD Security groups and have membership synced daily. PM me if you want more info on the apporach we used as I don't want to market all over this thread.
Jul 20 2017 02:33 AM
Share you concern.
I am not sure what's your definition of Enterprise. We are a 60 people company and need the nested membership feature as desparately as you do. Hoping to see something sooner than later.
Aug 28 2017 06:28 PM
Any news on this highly requested feature, @Christophe Fiessinger?
Aug 28 2017 08:47 PM
we don't have any update to share at this stage. FYI @Mike McLean (OFFICE)
Sep 13 2017 08:13 AM
I also want to add my vote for this feature we really need it.
Sep 21 2017 10:46 PM
Just wanted to add our request for this.
Not being able to use our existing AD groups to maintain SPO membership for site is terrible.
60,000 users that have existing AD security groups for business units already, is not something I want to have to replicate or update in 2 locations.
Cheers
Oct 12 2017 02:15 PM
I can't say enough how much this is required. It kills me that I have to create the same business unit groups in both On-Prem and Office 365 groups, it just makes no sense.
I can only assume it is a plan to get people to upgrade to Azure AD Premium, whihc is terribly overpriced.
Please get this figure out, it is preventing us from moving forward with using our SharePoint investment.
Oct 12 2017 02:26 PM - edited Oct 12 2017 02:29 PM
Did you see that Group Writeback is in preview for Azure AD Connect? I have not tested it yet, but based on comments it still needs improvement.
Oct 12 2017 02:28 PM
Nov 24 2017 12:33 AM
I too would like to add to this. An absolute pain in adding members .
Absolutely nothing available for Hybrid set ups. Having to replicate everything in two places is just ridiculous.
Nov 24 2017 01:12 AM
I too would like to add to this. An absolute pain in adding members .
No simple powershell available for Hybrid set ups. Having to replicate everything in two places is just ridiculous.
Feb 12 2018 12:51 PM
Technically there's nothing that can't be done, but MS nudges you to the next tier constantly.
I used to complain about trims on new cars, or cable TV packages... but MS just took the cake.
Mar 15 2018 02:26 PM - edited Mar 15 2018 02:26 PM
Had this very discussion today on a client site - large EDU customer. Now we do have AAD P1 licenses so can avail of Dynamic Groups in Azure. Seems sensible therefore to base membership off of the Department attribute - but, with this client they tell me that Department names often change so we'd end up with complex membership generation rules.
I can only assume the thinking here by Microsoft is that on-premise AD Security groups, manged by Admin, continue to secure local resources and that Office 365 Groups are managed, not by Admin but by the end users. So yes, we end up with two sets of groups essentially.
Not a great end result.
Mar 24 2018 02:42 AM
Hi - Can you kindly elaborate.
Regards,
Chiranjib
Mar 27 2018 04:29 PM
APIs are available to read AAD security group memberships, as well as write/modify O365 Group memberships--- you can build your own hooks between and keep select groups synced with a periodic sync. We've done something similar but productized it.
Apr 04 2018 02:03 AM
Hi John, yould you elaborate more on this please? Do you have some links to resources I could use? Your Input is highly appreciated.
Jun 06 2018 05:37 AM
Hi Marc, this is referring to the way we implemented a spin on dynamic group membership in our Cloud Governance solution--- essentially you can base O365 group membership on AAD security groups and we will keep them synced... PM me if you want more info...
Jun 12 2018 06:34 PM
So in short - you can not manage Office 365 Groups permissions based on groups/security groups/distribution groups ?
Jun 13 2018 05:34 AM
I've been following this for a while now. If anyone hasn't already, please go vote for this idea here: https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/286611-office-365-groups/suggestions/33942997-add-security-gr...
Jun 13 2018 08:40 AM