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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Nested Azure AD Groups are not assigned to Liferay groups

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Dávid Hegedüs

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Issue

  • You want to assign Liferay user groups via dynamic Azure AD groups when logging in with SAML. For this, certain rules of Azure AD groups are in place based on your needs.
  • There might be an issue where nested groups are not associated correctly in case you use Graph API's memberOf call to request the details

Environment

  • Liferay 7.0+
  • Azure AD

Resolution

  • Use trasitiveMemberOf instead of memberOf and select the DisplayName of the groups
  • Liferay should be able to match the assigned AAD user groups to existing Liferay groups
  • Liferay should be able to match the nested groups as well

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