How are you handling the retirement of “memberof” dynamic groups?
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MellowOrbit42
Microsoft is deprecating the "memberof" capability for dynamic groups, and I'm trying to figure out a practical replacement. So far, the alternatives I can think of seem either overly complicated or extremely manual. How are other administrators planning to recreate this functionality, especially for departments or groups with unusual membership requirements?
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I hadn’t heard about the change until now. The retirement is currently scheduled for November 3, according to notice MC1448379. I tested these groups briefly before and found them too slow, so I’m curious how organizations that depended on them heavily will handle the transition.
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The fallback seems to be using workbooks or reports to approximate the behavior, then maintaining the memberships through a more manual process. It’s not elegant, but I haven’t seen a straightforward replacement yet.
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I only have two of these groups, but unfortunately they’re both tied to departments with especially unusual membership rules. I’m expecting those to take the most effort to recreate manually.
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MellowOrbit42: That’s the date I saw too. I only experimented with them for a short time, and the performance made them difficult to rely on, but replacing them still looks painful.