Surviving the Entra ID member Of Retirement: Taking Control of Dynamic Group Membership

Microsoft is retiring the memberOf operator for dynamic groups in Microsoft Entra ID, requiring organizations that rely on it to rethink how affected group memberships will be maintained.

For identity teams, this is more than a rule migration. Groups can drive application access, licensing, policy assignment and other critical identity processes, meaning stale or inaccurate membership can quickly become an access and governance problem.

Watch Netwrix for a practical look at what the memberOf retirement means, how to identify the group configurations and downstream dependencies that may be affected, and the options available for maintaining dynamic group membership.

We'll also show how Netwrix Directory Manager SmartGroups can calculate direct group-derived membership independently of Entra's dynamic-membership evaluation engine and maintain the resulting membership in Entra ID.

You'll learn:

• What Microsoft's memberOf retirement means for existing dynamic groups
• How to assess affected groups and their downstream business impact
• How direct and nested/transitive membership scenarios differ
• How NDM SmartGroups can replace direct memberOf membership scenarios today
• How to build more flexible membership policies using group membership, directory attributes, inclusions and exclusions