Group Membership Restrictions

Question

Hi, 
 I was wondering if it is possible to have a group and if someone adds a user to this group that I can restrict the group to only contain users which meet certain criteria? For example: A group which only accepts members of which the first name starts with Steve. 
 Thanks. 
 
 Sander.

Terrance.Crombie · Answer

This is possible, but can get extremely complicated. The complexity lies in the fact that a Group membership update can contain one or more objects, including Users, Contacts, Computers, and other Groups. You would have to code a solution which pulled apart the requested modifications, checked to see what it was, and handled each scenario accordingly. 
 
It would be much simpler to simply leverage the Dynamic Groups feature within Active Roles. You can set a rule to build membership, and Active Roles takes care of it automatically. Anything manually added which doesn't meet the Group Membership criteria is removed immediately.