# PIM backend configuration Review the explicit group-scoping requirement recorded for the School Administrator role and the automation described as maintaining those scopes. !!!warning Source-derived reference These notes were recovered from OneNote. Configuration, permissions and operating results have not been freshly verified. Confirm the applicable authority and environment before acting. !!! ## Explicit Scoping of School Administrator School Administrator role needs explicit scoping for every group that you might want to assign an app/policy to, rather than an implicit scoping based on larger groups. From \<\> An automation exists to handle the maintenance of these scoping changes, as an added feature of the pre-existing automation which maintains the membership of the \: Groups admin unit. The change is that the *educationClass* groups (the automatically created school/subject/year groups) are excluded, because the source describes them as outside the expected policy-targeting scope. From \<\> ## Related guidance - [Topic overview](Introduction.md) - [Source review status](../../review/Review-status.md)