The question was: how could they avoid losing all of those groups, or having to recreate them?

The client relied heavily on these groups, and they wanted to be sure that they could keep them functioning while they made the switch to Microsoft Teams in Office 365. And although using Azure AD to connect and sync Active Directory groups is technically possible, trying to make those groups work with Office 365 Unified Groups and/or Microsoft Teams simply isn’t.Īctive Directory Groups, Microsoft Teams, and Integration with Office 365 GroupsĪt JourneyTEAM, we took on a client project involving a lot of pre-existing Active Directory groups. If you tried to merge those groups with the ones in Office 365, you’d end up with all sorts of issues. Up until now, the only way to enable extra functionality with groups in Active Directory was pretty cumbersome. This means that attempting to make these Microsoft Office 365 features work alongside Active Directory groups isn’t easy. Unfortunately, both Groups and Teams are only available via the cloud. The Teams feature lets the individuals in a particular team communicate quickly and easily.

In fact, Office 365 Groups allow your organization to set up Microsoft Teams that correspond to departmental divisions: marketing, administration, sales, product development, etc. As a Microsoft Office 365 user, one of the most valuable 365 features available to you is Groups.

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