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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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Thank you for your feedback! We have heard you and are considering future implementation options. There is no timeline yet for implementation. If this feature matters to you, keep voting as it will help us prioritize.

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  • Adm - Alan Tesser commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Two years passed, 435 votes for the feature, 58 comments, and nobody in Microsoft gives a sh*t about this. That's ridiculous. I'm just one more to include there, but as an Azure/Exchange admin of a company with 150K employees, I should represent 150K votes, not just one. And if all others like me could sum that value, I bet it'd be millions of votes for that. I assume the billing is being paid correctly, isn't it Microsoft?

  • Linda Gingrich commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Get a move on, Microsoft! There is NO reason that this shouldn't be available to us now. Please give us something useful for a change! This is something very useful! Or, at the very least, make 365 Groups include the "Security" attribute so that they can be used for Shared Mailbox access.

  • Phil Maynard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please enable these feature! We're needing to create two dynamics groups, one in Exchange and one in Azure AD. It would make so much more sense if it could be the same group that was used across the platform. This would also really help end users who expect to be able to use dynamic distribution lists for audience targeting in SharePoint.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need this too. We synchronize local AD Accounts from different ADs to Azure AD with custome Attributes to build then our Org Distribution Groups. These custome Attributes are not available in Exchange Online so that we have to create Dynamic Groups based on Azure Dynamic Groups. But yes unfortunately there are no mail enabled dynamic groups allowed in Azure AD

  • Mike Brown commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    In Power BI, when adding user groups to use a data source on a gateway, Microsoft requires the use of an email address or mail-enabled security group, but does not support the creation of mail-enabled security groups in Azure AD. Please, please, please provide this functionality! Our current work-around is to create an on-prem group and mail enable that group via Exchange's on-prem admin console and then sync the group up to Azure AD. What solution do you have for cloud based mail-enabled security groups for Power BI Data Sources?

  • Seng Ung commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have people sending email to dynamic distribution groups and adding encryption or sensitivity labels. Permission is not granted since these lists does not apply security permissions. I just hope mail-enabled dynamic security group would help solve this.

  • Ian Caldwell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Options to control group membership must be consistent across Office, Distribution and Security groups. Managing a fixed group of people so they can have SharePoint access, a Team, and receive emails - not a nice experience to manage three different groups, and not even have dynamic as an option for the mail-enabled security.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Can't believe this hasn't been implemented. This is why people are scared of Azure AD.

  • john commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I proposed this concept for our on Prem SharePoint, only to find it doesn't work? Please help me look good and make it a reality:-)

  • Hidenori Takahashi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I really need this right now to give access permissions in apps and send group mail. We purely want "Dynamic mail-enabled security group".

    Now we have 2 ways for substitute. First is to create static mail-enabled security group and combine with batch program, but it's much tougher than creating dynamic security group. Second is to use Office365 group, but this will have unnecessary apps. Anyway, both way is nonsense.
    If Microsoft implements "Dynamic mail-enabled security group", I'm sure it makes our business easy.

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