Add an AD group to a SharePoint List User/Group column

[Lee-Martin]

Hi

I've got a SharePoint List with a Person or Group column.

I'd like to select a specific AD list as a SharePoint group in order to limit the people who can be added.

What is the best way of doing this?

Thanks

[#2]

Go into List Settings, then choose your People column and set the 'choose from' option to a Group. You can create a new SharePoint Group and populate the members.  

[#3]

You can add your AD group in a SharePoint group which will work perfectly to grant access to your AD group users. But if you limit a People picker column to this SharePoint group, it cannot read individual users in AD group. Whole AD group can be selected if selecting groups is enabled in your people picker column.

[#4]

@Bharath Arja good point, I had forgotten about that. I did someone thing similar where I had a script extract members from an AD group and add users individually to a SharePoint Group. I haven't tried, but I think you could do the same thing with the Office Graph API and Power Automate.

[#5]

Thanks all, it's looking like it was an issue with me having access to Site Permissions (I'd been assured several time I had full access).

[#6]

I've put my AD list in the group - however, it's not showing anyone who's in that

I've selected the "people and groups" radio button, along with my SharePoint Group

[#7]

@Lee-Martin Did you add Azure AD group directly inside SharePoint group? and the SharePoint group is added to person or group column settings?

If yes, you cannot directly search the users in nested (Azure AD) group like this. You might be able to search the whole AD group using group name but you cannot select the users inside it.

You need to add all users directly inside SharePoint group to select it in person or group column.

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[#8]

Ah ok, so I literally have to add every user by email?

[#9]

@Lee-Martin Yes, correct.

Either you have to manually add all AD group users to SharePoint group OR you have to build custom solution (maybe using PowerShell or Power automate) which will read all users of AD group & add them one by one to SharePoint group.

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[#10]

Wow...this is a terrible solution on Microsoft's part! I need to be able to restrict a sharepoint column to users who are in a large dynamic AD group. There's no way I'm adding and managing 350 individual users to create a NEW sharepoint group. There's really no other solution Microsoft has that could make use of existing AD groups???

[#11]

@MA512 No, above is the limitation as per the current design by Microsoft. 

You can add new feedback/idea on SharePoint feedback portal and request for new feature supporting Azure AD groups in person or group columns: SharePoint feedback portal 

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