Office 365 Groups and Security Groups Confusion Explained

In this video, I try to illustrate why there seems to be this misconception that Office 365 Groups (and as such, Teams and modern SharePoint Team Sites, based on Groups) can contain Security Groups (or any other types of groups).

They can't. So stop it. :)

Microsoft Teams DOES allow you to select a group when picking members for your new team to help you identify a lot of people at once ... but from there, those people are added individually as members to your Team (and subsequently, Office 365 Group) and that is where the Security Group relationship ends...

Hope this helps someone.
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[ItsMeSuprLativ]

Perhaps what you're hearing is that people are adding on-premise security groups (I would also assume this works for cloud security groups) to SharePoint Online groups which is certainly possible. We use it as part of our RBAC to see which users have access to which SharePoint sites.


To do this, create a local AD group and sync to AAD. Create a SharePoint site and then go to the groups section, choose a group, click add, and search for the group name. Once added, you will see the group has been given access, not the members directly.

[ΜανώληςΚαραθανασης]

Hi, thanks for your video it is really helpful. I'm wondering, If now add a new member to the security group (Brunettes) will this person automatically become also member of the team (Brunettes)?