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Northwind Traders

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Empty, nested and dynamic groups

Groups with no members, groups inside other groups, dynamic groups with their rules and whether they're paused, teams and groups about to expire, role-assignable groups, and blocked accounts still in groups.

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Empty groups 1

Groups with no members at all. Delete the ones nobody needs; a dynamic group here has a rule that matches nobody. Empty groups older than 30 days are flagged.

GroupKindMembershipEmailCreated
Group creators lowSecurity groupAssigned10 Jan 2025

Groups inside groups 3

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Groups with other groups as members. Everyone in the inner groups gets what the outer group gives, which is easy to miss; 3 or more levels are flagged.

GroupKindGroups insideInside ofLevels belowMembers
Finance alertsMail-enabled security groupVPN UsersInfo22
Info lowDistribution listFinance alerts32
VPN UsersSecurity groupGroup creatorsFinance alerts12

Dynamic groups 1

Groups whose members Entra ID works out from a rule (needs Entra ID P1). A paused rule stops adding joiners and removing leavers, so it's flagged.

GroupKindRuleProcessingMembers
All StaffSecurity group(user.userType -eq "Member")Running2

Expiring soon 2

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Teams and Microsoft 365 groups the expiration policy will delete within 90 days. One that's used renews itself; otherwise its owners are emailed to renew it, so a group with no owner who can sign in is flagged, as is one due within 30 days. A deleted group can be restored for 30 days.

GroupKindExpiresDays leftOwnersMembers
Board lowTeam4 Nov 202624Ann Patel2
Project Phoenix mediumTeam27 Nov 202647Robert Hughes3

Role-assignable groups 1

Groups that can be given admin roles, so being a member of one is being an admin. Their owners can add anyone; a guest in one is flagged.

GroupKindMembersGuestsOwnersCreated
Helpdesk admins mediumSecurity group2110 Jan 2025

Blocked members 2

Groups that still hold accounts whose sign-in is blocked, usually leavers. Access the group gives is handed back the moment the account is unblocked, and the member counts others see are wrong; blocked accounts in a role-assignable group are flagged higher.

GroupKindBlocked accountsBlockedMembers
Marketing lowMicrosoft 365 groupRobert Hughes112
Project Phoenix lowTeamRobert Hughes13

Every group in the tenant, with its direct members (people, devices, apps and groups).

GroupKindMembershipMembersGroups insideInside ofCreatedExpires
BoardTeamAssigned210 Jan 20254 Nov 2026
Project PhoenixTeamAssigned310 Jan 202527 Nov 2026

Members are direct members. Teams and Microsoft 365 groups can't contain other groups. Delete or change groups in the Microsoft Entra admin center (Groups), or in on-premises AD for synced groups; Office Sentry only reads them.

Data from Group nesting (), Groups and Teams (), Users ().