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DougTraylor
Mar 24, 2020Copper Contributor
Problems listing the members of an Office 365 Dynamic Distribution List
Following the instructions from Microsoft and others, I was able to list the members of a DDL that we have this morning. Now, when I run the very same command, it says "completed", but no data is returned.
The command I run is:
Get-Recipient -Resultsize Unlimited -RecipientPreviewFilter (get-dynamicdistributiongroup groupname@contoso.com).RecipientFilter | fl
Instructions from Microsoft are found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/recipients-in-exchange-online/manage-dynamic-distribution-groups/view-group-members
Microsoft's instructions fail for me.
- $FTE = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup "[my group name]"
- Get-Recipient -RecipientPreviewFilter $FTE.RecipientFilter -OrganizationalUnit $FTE.RecipientContainer
This code has never worked, and returns an error:
A parameter cannot be found that matches parameter name 'OrganizationalUnit'.
When I remove the parameter for “-OrgazationalUnit”, it returns another error:
A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '[mydomainname].onmicrosoft.com'.
Definitely confused.
The first cmdlet is what you should use for O365, the second variation is for on-premises. The syntax of both is correct though, if you are not getting any results back the group is "empty".