Be able to Nest Groups like Distribution Groups
Be able to Nest Groups like Distribution Groups. I decided to convert a lot of our team DGs to O365 groups without realizing I wouldn't be able to nest them
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Hi! As we announced during Ignite this year, we are releasing an open source tool by the end of the year that can be used to pull in one or more security groups (nested or not) into the membership of large Microsoft 365 Groups. The membership will be pulled in as a flat list and kept in sync with the security group membership. Having Azure subscriptions is a pre-requisite to using this tool. The successful deployment would require support from personnel that have experience in building, deploying and managing Azure services, so you can get through the installation smoothly. If you have an urgent and immediate need for the tool, please reach out to GMMSupport@service.microsoft.com for a download link. Microsoft is releasing the tool without support, other than answering questions about how we use it internally.
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Anonymous
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Hi. working on it should be get it done! Please simply the work involved in maintaining group lists. manually updating lists because you are working on it doesn't help with progress or integrity of a group list. Nesting aids in reducing admin time reviewing lists for accuracy with any change in name or reporting.
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PWS
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How about smaller companies and non-profits who do not have large M365 groups or a separate AD. We only use M365 Subscription as a Service. Are we supposed to use this Opensource tool, as well?
I hope not, as we "just want to nest Groups" across email, planner, and other M365 apps which require security / access permissions.
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W. Hopper
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Please let us nest email groups.
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David Jenkins
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I understand the idea that MS wants users to consolidate the email into these groups. It's a great idea. The problem is we don't want that many buckets of email in Outlook. We want users to have a few groups\teams and send emails to them. Please allow nesting. It's what we all want.
Groups writeback is a disappointment. It's there, I can nest. You guys just need to sync that stuff back. Next next finish... :)
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Anonymous
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Hi, I would also like to be able to have a group inside another group as AD also supported this and it makes things easier and more flexible.
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Anonymous
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Is there any development regarding this? It is in the plans, but what does this mean? There is no update since Juli, can we expect any updates this year?
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Gail Trainor
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Please allow nest groups for distribution groups ... I support various distribution groups that have hundreds of names within. It would be a relief to use PRTLs, DS groups versus individually adding one name at a time. Thank you!
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Anonymous
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We are working with country groups, location groups, unit groups, teams groups and virtual project teams groups and we really need this feature! Please raise the priority to get this request done in near future, this will help us a lot for the migration to O365.
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D. Krebs
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Enable to Nest Groups like Distribution Groups
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Anonymous
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This is one of the most critical features that is still missing in M365 ecosystem. We need this and we kindly ask to to implement it as fast as possible.
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A Waring
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How is such a fundamental part of domain management missing from 365. We really need this feature!
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A. Taib
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This feature is realy needed. This wil prevent us much work and less mistakes in our administration.
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Manjit Bhatia
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Applying Policy on Teams groups which are O365 Type is very important to have nested features
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Oscar Stankard
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Are we nearly there yet? Getting some form of nesting to work is not that hard, it's when all the complexity of the other services are considered. Is there no way of setting up an Office 365 group to at least receive copies of emails sent to the parent group even if not with full membership of each service that the Office 365 group might confer on its members?
As others have said the default (and auto-conversions?) seem to railroad people towards 365 groups and they only find out later they don't work in the same way they used to and they can't use a fundamental Exchange/AD management technique.
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Anonymous
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Please enable this feature
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Anonymous
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Yes please make it possible to nest groups inside of other groups.
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Shaun Kilmartin
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This is really still not a thing? How on earth are we supposed to manage a complex organization without the ability to nest.
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Manoj Kumar
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When can we expect this feature?
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Clive
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Yes please to this enablement. Our Use Case is sharing Project Roadmaps with >7,600 E5 users (when that enablement arrives this month).
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PR
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Please consider that in other to provide a smooth migration from hybrid environments to a full cloud environment, our old distribution lists being converted to O365 groups (soon to be M365 groups).
Delaying the option of nesting both security and office (including dynamic groups), will only delay and frustrate companies trying to become fully cloud environments.
Thank you.