Security Groups in Office 365?

[Sam_Brown]

Hi All,

 

Is there a way to create security groups in Office 365?

 

Originally we've only been using it for ProPlus for students so they can install Office at home and various other bits and bobs but now MS have released ProPlus for staff we want to start using that as well and having security groups to separate staff \ students would make allocating the licenses a bit easier.

 

Anyone have any good guides? Only ones I can find are for mail distribution groups and creating them by hand. Would love to have groups based on those in our AD to make life easier.

[Boredguy]

To be honest, I assign licenses via PowerShell based on values stored in the users details.

 

For example, all our Teaching Staff have the "Department" field in Active Directory set to "Teaching"

Using this, I can get a list of users to assign licenses to with the following command

$users = Get-MsolUser -Synchronized -All | Where-Object {$_.Department -eq "Teaching" }

 

Security Groups can be used (either via DirSync or in Office 365 Admin -> Groups)

[snagrat]

I've used this site as a starting point.

 

http://o365info.com/manage-distribution-groups-by-using/

 

By using Import-CSV you can also upload a csv and therefore create in bulk

[Sam_Brown]

To be honest, I assign licenses via PowerShell based on values stored in the users details.

 

For example, all our Teaching Staff have the "Department" field in Active Directory set to "Teaching"

Using this, I can get a list of users to assign licenses to with the following command

 

 

Security Groups can be used (either via DirSync or in Office 365 Admin -> Groups)

 

Do you know how I can do it with DirSync?

[Boredguy]

All of our Network groups that resided in the same OU structure as our users were automatically synchronised to Office 365.

 

Check in Office 365 Admin portal under Groups to see if they are showing for you. If you are only synchronising specific OU's in Active Directory and your groups are in a different node, you will need to go into the Directory Sync tool on the server. Select the Active Directory Connection Management Agent and go to Properties.

Select Configure Directory Partitions, and then click Containers (login with a valid user, does not have to be the username that is says)

Tick the OU containers you want to have synchronised and click Ok on both screens.

 

Perform a sync and you should then find they will appear with your users in each group just as they are in AD.

[Sam_Brown]

Yes exactly right. Realised as soon as I went into Sync Service Manager and noticed only select OUs had been selected to sync what the issue was! Nice to see we both came to the same conclusion