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DougTraylor
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Mar 24, 2020
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Create an Office 365 Dynamic Distribution List from members of an Azure AD Security Group

Greetings.  We are trying to create a DDL from an on premise AD security group that is replicating to our Azure AD.  I have checked the Azure group, and it has all 3050 users in it that the OnPrem gr...
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    VasilMichev
    Mar 25, 2020

    What you need to provide for the MemberOfGroup filter is the DistinguishedName of the group, which you can get from Get-Group/Get-DistributionGroup/etc. And yes, it does differ between on-premises and the cloud.

     

    If your group is not mail-enabled though, chances are you will not be able to "see" it with any of the Exchange cmdlets, so that method will not work. 

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VasilMichev
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Mar 25, 2020

What you need to provide for the MemberOfGroup filter is the DistinguishedName of the group, which you can get from Get-Group/Get-DistributionGroup/etc. And yes, it does differ between on-premises and the cloud.

 

If your group is not mail-enabled though, chances are you will not be able to "see" it with any of the Exchange cmdlets, so that method will not work. 

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DougTraylor
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Mar 25, 2020

Get-Group worked.  That was the tip I needed! Thanks. 

I'll try again with the AzureAD DistinguishedName, and if it still fails, I can make it mail-enabled.

 

Thanks again.

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