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When making a group in Microsoft Teams, members can be added from an AD Class or Dept groupMicrosoft Teams can use Azure AD groups to help in bulk adding members to a team. The act of adding members to a team using the method below will COPY the membership of the group to the team, it will will not create a synchronizes relationship between the team and the group. Meaning if the Azure AD group membership changes, the team membership will not change.
Adding based on a Dept group
In Teams, click the three dots next to the Team name and select "Add member"
On the new screen type the name of an AD dept group whose members will be apart of the Team.
Pressing "Add" will now COPY all members of the dept group into the Team.
Adding based on a Class group
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Example: Class-1201-AAA-M001-Enrollment
| Piece | Description |
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| Class | Signifies this is a Class group |
| 1201 | The first "1" is a Y2K fix signifying this is in the 21st century "20" means this is for the fiscal year of 2020 The last "1" means this is part one of the academic year, so the Fall |
| AAA | The unit/OU |
| 101 | Course number |
| M001 | Course Section |
| Enrollment | Signifies who the group contains. Some examples include: Enrollment, Instructor PI, and Instructor TA |
Adding based on a Dept group
In Teams, click the three dots next to the Team name and select "Add member"
On the new screen type the name of an AD dept group whose members will be apart of the Team.
Pressing "Add" will now COPY all members of the dept group into the Team.
Important Information
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Action How to Update the Team A new user is added to the group in AD To add the user to the team, the same steps above will need to be used, which will add any changes to the group A user is removed from the group in AD To remove the user from the team, they must be manually removed in the Microsoft Teams interface.