Open Source Tool for Managing Large Groups Available for Download
Organizations routinely use groups with a large number of members for executive communications, company townhalls, and other collaboration scenarios. Maintaining the membership roster of a large group is critical to ensure the right audience is included. Stale rosters have consequences - imagine how a team that was recently moved into an organization feels when they are excluded from their VP’s townhall because the townhall community member roster was not updated? Group owners can spend countless hours, manually reconciling with spreadsheets or existing security groups to keeping the group membership accurate. It is much more efficient to have individuals maintain sub-group memberships (with <50 members) and automatically assemble the parent group roster as an aggregation of sub-groups. We want to share with you an open source tool that makes it easier to manage a large group roster by taking advantage of existing security groups and/or smaller groups kept up to date by teams within the larger org. The tool takes security groups or other Microsoft 365 Groups as source group(s), produces an aggregated flat-list membership roster of the destination Microsoft 365 Group based on the source groups and continues to keep the destination group roster in sync with the source groups. The solution is released "as is" under https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT and Microsoft is not obligated to provide any support service. Deploying the tool requires experience in building, deploying, and managing Azure services. For more information on the capabilities and pre-requisites, and to download the tool, see https://github.com/microsoftgraph/group-membership-management/wiki. Please contact the Microsoft 365 Groups engineering team at mailto:GMMSupport@service.microsoft.com if you have any questions, or would like to learn more about using the Group Membership Management tool in your organization. -- The Microsoft 365 Groups Team
Microsoft Teams Gruppen im Adressbuch anzeigen
Hallo alle zusammen, wir wollen die E-Mail-Adressen im Adressbuch anzeigen von Teams. Standardmäßig werden sie leider ausgeblendet. Es ist folgende Option gesetzt: Zu finden unter https://admin.microsoft.com/AdminPortal/Home#/groups/:/GroupDetails/ Wir möchten standardmäßig diese Option abschalten. Wir möchten standardmäßig, dass alle E-Mail-Adressen von Teams-Gruppen im Adressbuch erscheinen. Wie können wir das einrichten?Limit public M365 groups to security group
Hi Experts, the following requirements are creating some headaches for us: We want to create several M365 groups which should be easy to discover for the majority of our users so they can join without any approvals. However, we still would like to shield them from certain user groups, which we can identify by a security group for instance. These users should not be able to discover the groups nor access their content. I was certain that we could achieve this using sensitivity labels of the group entity, but labels don't provide the functionality to hide the group or restrict the access. Is there another solution that we could apply while keeping the groups itself public? Or should we rather focus on going with private groups and try to automate the approval of any access request based on the security groups? I can't imagine that we are the only ones with that issue so any guidance would certainly help other as well. Thanks, Martin
Question regarding MS Booking for single users and groups, & Synchronization with multiple calendars
Hi all, I currently use Doodle.com to prepare meeting polls which allows me to schedule meetings by giving several individual externals several availability slots to chose from. Once the polling is over then the overlapping time can easily be found allowing me to schedule the meeting based on the most convenient time, which is then added automatically to my primary calendar. It seems to be similar to what I have read for FindTime although its functionality seems to be limited to being an outlook add-in. Doodle has been great because: - it allows me to synchronize all my calendars (work and personal) to facilitate the selection of my free time slots to propose to the externals while preventing conflicts with any of my calendars. -it allows each individual external to select which time works best for them. From a different front, I use calendly to allow a single individual external to book me (only) by going to my page which contains my availability: https://calendly.com/vikyverna/. When an individual external books me a meeting invite is automatically added to my primary calendar. Additionally, calendly also allows a single individual external to book not just me but also a whole team (i.e. https://calendly.com/confinis-corporation/). The published availability for the whole team is based on the availability of each individual internal team member who get to synchronize their work and personal calendars to calendly. When an individual external books the team a meeting invite is automatically added to my primary calendar of each of the individual team member's primary calendar. Now when it comes to MS Bookings, I like the feature it has that neither Doodle nor calendly has (to my knowledge) to allow an individual external to not only be able to book me but also select other specific staff. However, before taking the leap I wanted to verify if it also has the functionalities that enjoy from Doodle and calendly above; specifically: Meeting poll preparation for several individual externals with the following capabilities Synchronization with several calendar sources (not just outlook) (for a single user and for each member of an internal company team where applicable) Automatic display of available slots (to avoid conflicts with several source calendars) for a singe user (me) and team (several members with each being able to source from their multiple calendars) Automatic invite to primary calendar (of a single user, and of each member of an internal company team where applicable) after best time is found. Time slot selection by a single individual external to book me, any members of a team (i.e. staff), or a whole internal company team; with the same synchronization and display capabilities listed above. If anyone could let me know if all of these features are available in MS Bookings that would be great! Also, is MS Booking available for free on Office Enterprise E1 - If my requirements above are met I will upgrade my account from Office 365 Business Essentials to Enterprise E1. Please advise. Thank you in advance for your attention to this request and pardon the length.Enable External Users to manage group membership on Azure AD
Hi, We have a requirement to allow some external Guest Users in our Azure AD to manage the membership of certain Groups in our Azure AD domain. The requirements are: Only specified Guest Users can manage only specified groups Ideally the changes they make are enacted immediately A full audit trail of their changes is available I am wondering if the "Ask a sponsor to review a guest's access to an application" option detailed on the "Manage guest access with Azure AD access reviews" page (see: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/active-directory/governance/manage-guest-access-with-access-reviews) may meet this requirement? Can you have an external Guest User as the sponsor? Are they only able to enact changes based on be triggered with a review request, or can they initiate changes themselves? Are the results of their Access Reviews immediately automatically enacted, or does this require review and implementation by a tenant admin? Our other option is to code a control to provide this management, and use GraphAPI calls to make the membership changes. Would be very interested if anyone has any ideas on this, or if there are any other options we have overlooked to meet these requirements. thankyou!!
