office 365 and security groups

Question

Hi ,

This is regarding the difference between office 365 and security group.

We would like to know what is the difference between office 365 and security group. Need to know the scenarios when to use office 365 and security groups

And also.

As per the security groups ---Security groups are used to give group members access to applications, resources and assign licenses. Group members can be users, devices, service principals, and other groups.

How can we add the service principals to security group .Any documentation or example would be helpful to us.

Thanks,
Subbu

Answer 1

@Subramanyam k Thanks for reaching out.

Office 365 groups are mainly used when you need to perform collaboration activities with people inside or outside the organization. They can get a shared group email and workspaces for sharing files, events and conversations.
You can read more about them here

Security Groups are used for granting permission to access the office 365 resources like sharepoint etc.
You can read more about it here.

You can also have a look at this 3rd party blog where they try to explain the differences with scenarios.

You can add a Service principal to a security group just by adding a member and typing the service principal name.

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