Enable support for dynamic mail-enabled security groups
Dynamic security groups are great, mail-enabled groups are great too wouldn't it be great to have both. We have a requirement to create security groups (or distribution groups) based on employee attributes (i.e. Active Full-time, Active Parttime, etc...). These attributes live in Azure AD but aren't accessible in Exchange Online so I cannot create a dynamic distribution group. I am able to create a mail-enabled security group but the membership cannot be dynamic. And any dynamic group I create can't be mail-enabled unless it's a unified group but for the purposes we need the groups for Unified groups aren't appropriate. All North America employees do not need to be a threaded group with planner and calendars. Please fix these gaps.
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28 comments
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Dean Navarro
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+3
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Anonymous2
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+1
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Anonymous
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Our SharePoint consultants want mail enabled security groups and I want them dynamic. So get moving Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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Another solution would be to allow the use of dynamic Azure security groups for Exchange object permissions. But please do something to make dynamic permission assignment possible in Exchange Online.
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Anonymous
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How about a simple change to allow Dynamic Distribution List membership by Security Group?
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Scott
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I am sure the 137 votes represents a much larger group that needs this function.
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Ian ROlfe
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We Really need this to dynamically give access to shared mailboxes
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Anonymous
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This is really a problem. You only give us one tenant. We need to separate students and faculty/staff. both populations are changing all the time. For example students should not be able to book certain rooms - we need a dynamic, mail enabled universal security group to create the bookinpolicy
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Jeán Hubbard
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Seriously, this really needs to be a thing. We have employees that move between departments a lot, many times still "filling in" for their old department until a replacement is hired.
Managing "Groups" is also becoming confusing and a mess with everything creating Groups. -
Phil
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We need this!
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Shaun Kilmartin
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Please make this happen. I really was hoping that I could have dynamic Mail-Enabled Security Groups. It would make it way easier to manage departmental lists. Unfortunately, using a dynamic O365 group is overkill a lot of the time, and its impossible to make a Dynamic O365 group private, which is a huge security issue for us.
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Ali Khalifah commented
Dynamic group, wait you can't use it everywhere.... let's go back to the manual process by asinging one user every time. this may only take a couple of months.
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Alan Gordon
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Main point to use dynamics groups is to reuse them for multiple purposes. It looks like there are still disconnections between products, this requires to be fixed.
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Anonymous
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Yikes, what's the point of a dynamic SG then?
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Anonymous
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Not having this creates double work.
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Anonymous
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Why isn't this already done? I cannot separate out hundreds of thousands of students from my corp email users within the same tenant. Veeam cannot backup anything but mail-enabled groups, of which dynamic groups are apparently not a part!
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Nick
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Why does this even need to be a question??? It should have been a standard requirement.
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Anonymous
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Imagine I want a dynamic group for users with specific conditions.. maybe all that are new to the company are added to the "All Employees" group. Why then am I not allowed to email this group? It defeats the purpose of the group being dynamic
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Alan
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The number of attribute options in Exchange are laughable. We absolutely need the flexibility of this group type to be mail-enabled! Either that or transfer the same options to dynamically scope security groups to the exchange groups. Must have!!
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Bhoopathy M
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This is important feature to be included and its must for enterprise customers.