I couldn’t find a way to use a group (or dynamic group) as the UI to add selected users doesn’t allow you to add members from a group.įigure 5: Details fetched from LinkedIn (image credit: Tony Redmond)
If you want to restrict the feature to selected users, you’ll have to enter details of those users manually. You’ll see that you can authorize LinkedIn for all accounts, selected accounts, or no accounts (Figure 1). Go to the Azure Active Directory portal and select User settings. It’s always slower to deploy software into these clouds, so this is unsurprising.įor more information about how LinkedIn connects to Office 365 apps and services, read the Microsoft article.
Government, China, and the “Black Forest” cloud in Germany) cannot connect LinkedIn to Office 365. As it happens, Microsoft has enabled the link by default for most Office 365 tenants, with the exceptions being the German and French datacenter regions where the link must be enabled before users can connect to LinkedIn.
Every Office 365 tenant has an instance of Azure Active Directory to hold its account information, so if you want to allow users to connect their accounts to LinkedIn, the link must be enabled. The basis of the connection between Office 365 and LinkedIn is to match Office 365 user accounts with LinkedIn accounts. Now Office 365 tenants can allow users to connect to their LinkedIn accounts to view information about 575 million LinkedIn users if they wish. Some organizations had the opportunity to connect the two in the last year, but sorting out concerns about privacy, making sure that the connection respected GDPR, and dealing with the inevitable bugs slowed full deployment. It was always likely that they would look for opportunities to connect LinkedIn with Microsoft products and we duly started to hear about a connection between LinkedIn and Azure Active Directory at Ignite 2017. Microsoft closed its acquisition of LinkedIn in December 2016.
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