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Sharing a dashboard to Office 365 groups
The sharing story is still evolving for sure. Apps are currently the recommended way to distribute to a wide audience, so that's a good idea to go that direction.
I don't think the functionality is lit up yet, but Apps will allow you to share directly with an AD group so you wouldn't need the O365 group in the middle unless it gives you other benefits (like the shared OneDrive, etc) -- that's on their roadmap here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/distribute-to-large-audiences-with-power-bi-apps/#faq
In the meantime: At a customer project last year we used PowerShell to extract members from the AAD group and then repopulate the O365 group with the correct members on a schedule (every few hours I think). Unfortunately I departed before that project concludes so I don't have a copy of the finished script to share. I do recall we told the script to detect deletes as well as new members, and we also told it to ignore the admins (because we wanted to manage admins manually) and only manage the members (which we had set to read-only) for the workspace.
Anonymous I certainly hope not, it would defeat the purpose of using AD groups if I had to go back in everytime and re-do it... I would submit this as an Issue
Have you also tried to share the link directly with the end user?
Have you checked after a longer period of time?
Hi Anonymous
I've tried both sharing the link with the users direct and I've left it for a number of hours and neither seem to work everytime. It is very intermittent in the way it works. Worst thing is if you have removed an Office 365 group from the sharing and the users still seem to have access - that's not great.