Get a list of O365 groups

The inclusion of O365 groups is great, it enables users to share documents, planner, calendar. Also taking into account that everyone is able to create a group.

However the problem starts when a user ask for the group url of the site collection, at first glance, you will thinlk to go to the SharePoint Admin Center and search for the site collection, and then you realize, that this site collection that has been created by groups, simply does not exist.

So what we can do? A simply approach will be use a Search Results Web Part in SharePoint Online to show those Site Collections, so let’s use it 🙂

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So by doing this, we will be able to show all the groups that has been created in O365 and also taking into account that the security trimming will be respected.

The only drawback to this solution will be that the private groups won’t be listed in the search results. Also to improve this query, will be great to be able to show the Yammer groups or other locations where we store the documents.

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