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Copper Contributor

Aug 17, 2016

Dynamic Office 365 groups

Any chance for dynamic Office 365 groups? Let's say, a new employee is hired for an organization. This person should be added automatically to this organization's Office 365 group to enable her/...

Office 365 Groups

SanthoshB1
Aug 17, 2016
It is available with Azure AD premium subscription.

Bronze Contributor

It is available with Azure AD premium subscription.

Steel Contributor

Aug 17, 2016

SanthoshB1 is correct, you need AAD Premium to get this working out of the box.

However, if you are a bit into Powershell scripting then you should be able to write a script that can read a users security group profile (retrieved from AD using AD Connect) and add members to unified groups using the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet to add members to a unifiedgroup based on a security profile.

cfiessinger
Microsoft
Aug 19, 2016
Official AAD documentation https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-accessmanagement-manage-groups/#how-can-i-create-a-simple-rule-to-manage-members-of-a-group-dynamically
- Carol DeMuth
  Iron Contributor
  Oct 13, 2016
  Thanks for the link to the documentation. If we don't have the premium Azure AD, and we convert Dynamic distribution lists that were set up in Exchange to "Groups" would the membership in that group then have to be maintained by the Group owner?
  I am creating some documentation for our users and I noticed that using the People directory shows Dynamic Distribution lists, but doesn't show the membership. I was thinking of converting to Groups, but will have to work out the maintenance of membership.
  - cfiessinger
    Microsoft
    Oct 13, 2016
    correct in that case the owner will have to manage the members. I highly recommend in that case to have multiple owners.