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Steve Whitcher
Bronze Contributor
Oct 27, 2017

Dynamic Distribution Group with custom recipientfilter by Title contains no members

I'm trying to create a dynamic distribution group in exchange online, using a recipientfilter to include all users with a specific job title.  I started an exchange online session in powershell, and ...
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VasilMichev's avatar
VasilMichev
MVP
Oct 27, 2017

Works fine here:

 

[20:19:49][O365]# New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name title -RecipientFilter {Title -eq "WC"}

Name  ManagedBy
----  ---------
title


[20:20:29][O365]# Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter (Get-DynamicDistributionGroup title).recipientFilter

Name RecipientType
---- -------------
WC   UserMailbox

[20:20:53][O365]# Get-Recipient WC | ft Name,title

Name Title
---- -----
WC   WC

 

Probably some typo you've made in the string?

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Steve Whitcher
Bronze Contributor
Oct 27, 2017

Ok, I just spotted what you are doing differently from what I am.  To see what members were included in the filter, I was just running

(Get-DynamicDistributionGroup ddgtest).recipientpreviewfilter

When I run the command as you did, it does return the expected result:

PS U:\> get-recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter (Get-DynamicDistributionGroup ddgtest).recipientfilter

Name           RecipientType
----           -------------
Steve Whitcher UserMailbox

So, is this actually working and I was just not using the right command to verify membership?  I wonder if I misread that somewhere or just made it up out of thin air...

 

Is it also not possible to expand the membership of a DDG in Outlook or OWA?  That would explain why the group just disappeared when I tried to click the plus to expand it... 

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