ABOUT THIS SERVICE
SFU Groups (powered by Grouper) provides a single location to manage groups and view group membership, such as for provisioning service access and privileges.
In the background, SFU Groups simplifies access management by leveraging the same group or role across many services at SFU while also automating changes to service access and privileges as a person’s role changes, easing the manual work of on-boarding and off-boarding.
SFU Groups App
Note: At this time, SFU Groups is only intended to manage access control groups (e.g., groups for providing licensing to a software or access to a system). Email distribution features will be available once we integrate Exchange Distribution Groups into the service.
How-To Guides
FAQs
GENERAL
What is Direct and Indirect membership type?
Members of a group can either be direct members or indirect members.
If a manager adds a user to a group, the user is considered a direct member. If a manager adds another group as a member to a group, all the members of the 'another group' are shown as indirect members.
What are the different group types?
Group: An entity that contains a group of users, created on SFU Groups (or Grouper).
Maillist: An entity that contains a group of users, but was created on SFU Maillist.
Delegated Account Manager (DAM) Group: Groups that are connected to the DAM. If you have access to a
delegated account, you will see these groups.
Exchange Distribution Group: Groups that are connected to Microsoft Exchange, which will be used as distribution lists on SFU Mail.
MAILLIST TRANSITION
What are the differences between SFU Groups and SFU Maillist?
SFU Groups intends to a modernized replacement of SFU Maillist by providing a better user experience for managing groups. For the standard user, there are no major differences in functionality between SFU Groups and SFU Maillist for managing groups.
Note: At this time, SFU Groups is only intended to manage access control groups (e.g., groups for providing licensing to a software or access to a system). Email distribution features will be available once we integrate Exchange Distribution Groups into the service.
What will happen to SFU Maillist?
At this time, nothing will happen to SFU Maillist. SFU Groups will be available to the SFU community as another tool to better manage groups and access controls.
However, we are migrating access control lists from SFU Maillist to SFU Groups. Any changes or impacts will be communicated. As adoption of SFU Groups matures, we will engage owners of maillists used for access control to migrate from SFU Maillist to SFU Groups.
What should I expect if my Lists are migrated to SFU Groups?
If you own or manage an access control list that is migrated, your list name is retained and nothing needs to be changed (e.g., maillist-managed teams on Microsoft Teams, maillist-restricted AEM pages, shared drives and more will continue to work without disruptions).
Making membership changes to your lists will have to be done in SFU Groups instead of SFU Maillist. Additionally, some features changes between the two application may impact you. To view these changes, see
Differences between SFU Groups and SFU Maillist.
TECHNICAL RESOURCES
Note: Technical resources are restricted to SFU staff and faculty.
Technical Documentation for Grouper
Adoption Toolkit