How to add an AD Group and an Azure AD Group to MS Teams so all members get Member permissions in that MS Team?

Question

Hi there

How to add an AD Group and an Azure AD Group to MS Teams so all members get Member permissions in that MS Team?
(This way the new users added to those groups will automatically get access to this Team in MS Teams).

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @frob

There are two routes to assist with this. If you add an AAD Security Group, it will only take the current members of that list and not update it going forward. You will want to either do it dynamically or manually using a Microsoft 365 Group:

1) This can be done by creating dynamic groups in AAD then create a Team from that existing group. As far as I'm aware, this is the only way to have dynamically updated groups.

2) You can also just create a Microsoft 365 group (in which you create a Team from), and manually update the users on the list. This will update the Microsoft Team's members.

Overview of dynamic membership for teams

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/dynamic-memberships

Create a team from an existing group

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/create-a-team-from-an-existing-group-24ec428e-40d7-4a1a-ab87-29be7d145865

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