Microsoft 365: Creating security group from UI – in Microsoft 365 admin center

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In this article we will discuss – How to create security group in Microsoft 365 admin center

Different group types

• Microsoft 365 groups
  • Enables collaboration between internal and external users of our organization
  • We have group email address
  • We have have shared workspace for conversation, files, calendar events, stream and planner
  • If external sharing is enabled we can add external users to this type of groups
• Distribution groups
  • Used to distribute messages to group of users
  • These groups also called “mail enabled distribution group” or “distribution list”
• Security groups
  • Can be used to distribute messages to a group of users, or to grant access permissions to resources
  • Example : Assigning a permissions to group of users in SharePoint site
  • A security group created in SharePoint is only recognized by that SharePoint site collection
  • Security groups can also contain devices except mail enabled security groups
  • Creating a security group for devices can be used with mobile device management services, such as Intune
  • We can add Security groups to the Teams
• Dynamic distribution groups
  • Dynamic distribution groups is group whose membership list can be calculated each time when we send the message
  • Membership list of dynamic distributed group is recalculated based on conditions and filters which we defined while creating daynmic distribution group

Permissions required to create Microsoft 365 Groups / Who can create microsoft 365 Groups

User with following roles can create the “Security Groups“

• Global administrator
• User administrator
• Directory writers
• Groups Administrator
• Privileged Role Administrator
• SharePoint Administrator

Steps to create Microsoft 365 security group from Microsoft 365 admin center

• Navigate to Microsoft 365 admin center
• From left pane select – “Teams & groups >> Active teams & groups” as shown in below fig

• On groups page, we have an option to add new group – “Add a group” as shown in below fig

• As we click on “Add a group” link / option, we will be navigated to – “addgroupwizard” page as shown in below fig

• Add the details for new group – Name and Description

• Once group details are entered, review once and at bottom click on “Create group” button

• Make sure group is created successfully

• As group is created successfully, we will have our group in groups list as shown in below fig

• As new group is in place we are ready to add group owners and members
• Just click on the group, right pane will appear from which we can add group owners and members as shown in below fig

• We could see our group in Azure Active Directory admin center as well, as shown in below figure

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