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title: "User Groups"
slug: "user-groups"
description: "How to organise users into groups so you can assign permissions and access rights to several people at once instead of one by one."
updated: 2025-10-07T09:58:24Z
published: 2025-10-07T10:23:00Z
canonical: "help.mail-and-deploy.com/user-groups"
---

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# User Groups

### General

User groups are collection of [Users](/release36/docs/users).

### Properties

Every user group has the following properties:

| Name | Description |
| --- | --- |
| Name | The name of the user group. |
| Members | A collection of [Users](/release36/docs/users) which are members of the group. |

### Managing User Groups

There are two ways to manage user groups in Mail & Deploy.

#### Management Service

You can connect to the [Management Service](/release36/docs/services) user interface of Mail & Deploy and click the *User Groups* item in the main menu. This will provide you with a list of all user groups currently known to Mail & Deploy.

          NOTE

          

Only users of type *Adminstrator* may manage users through the *Management Service*. If you don't see the *User Groups* item in the main menu, the most likely reason is that you are not a user of that type.

From the user list, you can then start to edit or delete existing user groups as well as create new user groups manually.

#### User Directory Synchronization

You can synchronize user groups with User Directories by manually clicking the *Synchronize* button in the user directory management user interface of Mail & Deploy or you can use a [Synchronize User Directory](/release36/docs/synchronize-user-directory) Action in a [Task](/release36/docs/tasks).