Working with Groups

A GroupID portal enables you to manage your directory groups in the identity store, so you can do the following and more:

• Add and remove members from your groups
• Join and leave other groups
• Associate a scheduled job for membership update with Smart Groups
• Expire groups instantly or set an expiry policy to auto expire them later

General

• Search for groups
• View object properties
• View groups managed by an object
• Manage group access
• Set email delivery restrictions
• The Send As and Send on Behalf features

Group Membership

• Add members to a group
• Change the membership type of a group member
• Remove members permanently from a group
• Add a group to the membership of another group (nesting)
• Import members to a group
• Export group members
• Invite a guest user

Scheduled Updates

• Modify the query for a Smart Group/Dynasty
• Schedule periodic membership updates for Smart Groups/Dynasties
• Update the membership of a Smart Group/Dynasty using the Update command
• View Smart Group Update job status

Group Ownership

• Change a group's primary owner
• Set additional owners for a group
• Import additional owners for a group
• Export additional owners
• Change an additional owner’s ownership type
• Set Exchange additional owners

Join/Leave a Group

• Join a group permanently
• Join a group temporarily
• Leave a group permanently
• Leave a group temporarily
• Join or leave a group on behalf of a direct report or peer

Dynasties

• Manage attributes for an Organizational/Geographical/Custom Dynasty
• Manage Managerial Dynasty structure
• Set attribute inheritance
• Modify alias and display name templates

Group Expiry and Deletion

• Group Expiry
• Expire a group manually
• Change the expiry policy for a group
• Attest an expiring group
• Renew an expired group
• Group Deletion

Query Designer Policy for Groups

• Modify the query for a Smart Group/Dynasty created by other role members
• Schedule periodic membership updates for Smart Groups/Dynasties (as per group owner role's Query Designer policy)

See Also

• Groups
• Group Properties
• User Account Settings