MS-102 Certification Notes

Day 4.1 - Groups

Groups Overview
Group Management Tools
- Microsoft 365 Admin Center
- Entra ID Admin Center
- SharePoint Groups
- PowerShell
Group Licensing
Group Administrator Role Management
Microsoft 365 Group Reports

Group Membership can be:
- Assigned - Users directly assigned
- Dynamic User - membership determined via KQL Query
- Dynamic Device - membership determined via KQL Query
Not all Groups Support Dynamic Membership
Dynamic Queries Done in Entra ID Admin Center
For Example, the KQL Query:
- (user.department -eq "Finance")
Means that any user whose Department property is Finance will be in this group

Groups are Objects that contain one or more users
- Some Groups Support Roles
  - Owner
  - Member
Groups are used in several different ways (workloads)
- Communication
- Access to Resources
- Licensing
- Administrative Roles

Microsoft 365 Admin Center
Entra ID Admin Center
Exchange Online Admin Center
- Via some software products included with license
  - Microsoft Teams
  - Planner
  - Project Online
PowerShell
- Microsoft Graph PowerShell Module
  - Microsoft Graph PowerShell is a wrapper for the Microsoft Graph API's
  - There is one Main Module Microsoft.Graph with 38 (and counting) sub modules
  - The sub-Module for Working with Groups is Microsoft.Graph.Groups
  - Currently there are 339 Commands in this module
- MSOnline PowerShell Module
- Azure AD PowerShell Module

Created On Premise in Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS)
Managed On Premise
Synchronized via Azure AD Connect
- a copy is made in Entra ID
- Membership and attributes are updated on the copy via Azure AD Connect

When a Microsoft Team is created
- If not connecting to an existing Microsoft 365 Group
Viva Engage (formerly known as Yammer)
- Private and Internal communities
Microsoft Planner
Microsoft Project Online - Roadmap (not necessarily automatic)
And others...