Groups are required for some TU.it services, especially for checking authorizations:

Structure Element Groups (Organizational Groups)

Your structural element (your organizational unit) already exists in upTUdate as a "structural element group" (with all persons in your structural element) and can be used both for calendar release and for mail distribution (Ennn@intern.tuwien.ac.at).

Authorization groups

upTUdate authorization groups can also be formed across institutes from any persons entered in TISS.

For example, you need an upTUdate authorization group Ennn.mygroup,

• to share your calendar with this group (the calendar release option for your group Ennn.mygroup is automatically set up a few minutes after creation!),
• to be able to use a functional account (representation of functions independent of individual persons),
• for setting up a mail distributor (using an upTUdate group),
• for the establishment of public folders,
• for the use of TUfiles.

As an address manager, you can use TISS to set up an upTUdate authorization group (can only be set up by an address manager): https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/adressbuch/uptudate, opens an external URL in a new window