Microsoft has released its new productivity tool, which is modern and allows people to work together. Microsoft Loop gives a more effective workflow, and all teams can continue working in the same place. It is also integrated across Microsoft 365 apps and services. If you are an organization that wants to unlock Microsoft Loop for your team, you can start opting in during the public preview.
In this article, we will share how you can enable Microsoft Loop within your organization. Once enabled, you and your team can use Microsoft Loop across your organization. If you are an individual, you can check out Microsoft Loop, which will also help you in terms of productivity.
Microsoft Loop for Organisations
Microsoft Loop for Organisation is integrated with Microsoft 365 apps, which means it will boost productivity for your team and allow them to work simultaneously. They can create and share Loop components across Microsoft 365, including Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook, Word for the Web, Whiteboard, and the Loop app. When you share the Loop component, it will be up-to-date and can be edited in those apps synced across the ecosystem, making it easier for you and your team to work collectively and together.
How to enable Microsoft Loop across organizations
To enable Microsoft Loop across your organization, you need to create a security group that has all the users in your organization who want access to the Loop. It could take an hour for settings and loops to be successfully created. Remember that your firewall rules should allow the appropriate service. There are two different ways to create a security group: a dynamic security group or a static security app, where the first can be added with users’ accounts and the latter is added manually by you, respectively. You can learn more about Loop admin settings here.
Dynamic Security Group
A dynamic security group is a configuration of a security group for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), which you can access from the Azure Portal. IT admins can use it to set rules to populate groups created based on users’ attributes, such as user type, country/region, or member, which can be automatically added or removed from the security group based on their attributes. You can learn more about it here.
Requirements
You require Azure AD Premium P1 or P2 licensing to create and use dynamic groups. Learn more about it here.
Create an all-user dynamic group.
- Sign in to the Azure Portal. From there, select Azure Active Directory.
- Head over to Groups under Manage and then select New Group.
- On that page, you have New Group under Group Type and go to Security.
- Enter the group name and the group description for the new group, and under Membership, type Select Dynamic Users.
- Select Add dynamic query, and above the Rule Syntax box, click Edit.
- Next, on that page, under Edit Rules Syntax, type your expression user.objectId -ne nulluser. ObjectId is null and then select OK to save. Next, click on Create to begin creating a new group page.
Create a group of members only.
If you want to exclude some users—maybe they don’t want to have Microsoft Loop used at this moment—then those users can be removed. You can create a dynamic group by entering these expressions (user.objectId -ne null) and (user.userType -eq “Member”). On the other hand, there is a static group, which you can learn about here.
How to add a security group and add members to the security group
- Open Microsoft 365 admin and head over to Groups. From there, go to the group page.
- After that, click on Add Group on the Group page, and from there, choose a group type.
- Choose Security and then Security Group [name] on the group page.
- Go to the member’s tab and then select View All and Manage Members.
- On that page, select Add Member and choose the person you want to add to the list.
- If you want to remove any person, simply click on the X next to their name.
How to Create a Cloud Policy
It’s quite similar to what we did previously. To use it in a more simplified way, you can use the following instructions, and to learn more about it, head over here.
- Open Config.Office.com with your admin account. From there, head over to Customisation and then go to Policy.
- After that, go to Create to create a new policy, and then name it based on your preferences.
- In the assignment, choose if the policy applies to your installed Microsoft 365 apps for enterprise or just for users. Give the security group the right to scrap your policy.
- Now, configure the Loop app policy by clicking on Create and View Loop Files in the Loop.
- After that, click on Save, and to check if it’s working or not, check here to test.
Note: You may need to enable traffic through your firewall to ensure connection to the loop service that you enabled if you are using firewall rules. To enable it, you can learn about it here.