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Anyone notice that Office365Groups.ListGroupMembers() and MicrosoftEntraID.GetMemberGroupsV2() don't support paging in canvas apps

I hit this ages ago with Office365Groups.ListGroupMembers(), but I've just noticed it with MicrosoftEntraID.GetMemberGroupsV2() as well.

While Office365Groups.ListGroups() supports paging using a skiptoken, ListGroupMembers() does not.

And there doesn't seem to be an equivalnet of ListGroups() for MicrosoftEntraID.

Both apparently support the Settings | Paging in Cloud flows, but not in canvas apps.

So, what's the solution?

Graph requests? That's a premium connector, so not suitable for some organisations.
Use a Power Automate cloud flow? That's not going to be quick to retrieve and return 1000s of members.
Build your own custom connector? That's premium again and not for the faint hearted...

And don't get me started on nested groups, or distribution lists vs (email enabled or not) security groups vs M365 groups... Though I believe MicrosoftEntraID does handle these.

Sorry, just needed a rant....

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Building Power Apps

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Connector development

Hello @Craig_Humphrey,

Yes, that's correct. ListGroupMembers() and GetMemberGroupsV2() don’t support paging in canvas apps.

Reference Link:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/office365groups/#pagination

If you continue to retrieve group members on demand using Power Automate, you may still run into Power Apps response time limits (around two minutes), particularly when working with large groups.

Because of this, a more reliable approach is to synchronise group membership into Dataverse/SharePoint on a scheduled basis. Doing so avoids runtime timeouts and payload size constraints, scales much better as data grows, and allows the canvas app to query the data directly without calling Microsoft Graph at runtime. By centralising the synchronisation in a background flow or service process, premium licensing can be restricted to the service account or flow owner, rather than requiring premium licenses for every end user.

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