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SergeiBaklan
Aug 27, 2016MVP
Exchange Online - hide membership for Distribution Group
It works for AD (hideDLmembership) and unified groups/Office365 groups on cloud (HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled), but didn't find how to do that for traditional DG for Exchange Online. Is it any way to do that?
You might be able to work around the inability to stop the expansion of a group. I tried the following in my Exchange Online lab tenant:
- I created a distribution group called dgHide, added members and selected the checkbox to hide the group from address lists.
- I then created a distribution group called dgUnHide. The only member I added to it was dgHide.
- Email sent to dgUnHide was delivered to the members of dgHide.
- When I opened the email in Outlook clicking the + beside dgUnHide yielded an error message. Trying to view its properties and check the membership told me there were no members.
Thanks
Chris
- You can't,
- Chris Pollitt
Microsoft
You might be able to work around the inability to stop the expansion of a group. I tried the following in my Exchange Online lab tenant:
- I created a distribution group called dgHide, added members and selected the checkbox to hide the group from address lists.
- I then created a distribution group called dgUnHide. The only member I added to it was dgHide.
- Email sent to dgUnHide was delivered to the members of dgHide.
- When I opened the email in Outlook clicking the + beside dgUnHide yielded an error message. Trying to view its properties and check the membership told me there were no members.
Thanks
Chris
Chris, thank you. Four years after I implemented this. Better later than never.
Not sure if another technique exists now, at least I didn't find.