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Is there a way to convert Office 365 group to Distribution group?
Only Outlook 2016 properly recognizes Groups and allows you to manage their members. And you need to use the relevant Group controls, not the address book dialog. Check the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-and-remove-group-members-in-Outlook-3b650f4a-5c9b-4f94-a1bb-0cca4b1091de
- Mainly because Office365 groups allow team members to leave the group thereby making administrative control of groups in an organization completely useless.
Dynamic Office 365 Groups are a solution when you want to control membership. Admins need to update AAD before someone can leave a dynamic group.
This feature requires an Azure AD Premium P1 license. We are a small non-profit with about 20 employees. Paying $120 a month on top of our Office365 subscription just so we can use dynamic groups is not fiscally responsible. Microsoft keeps changing options and features just so it can monetize functionality. As a long time user of MS products, for the first time in my 20 year career, I am starting to seek alternatives.
Hi Juan,
It doen't work. I added a user as owner but the user couldn't manage the group. See the error message in my previous post.
Plase advise!
Thanks,
Only Outlook 2016 properly recognizes Groups and allows you to manage their members. And you need to use the relevant Group controls, not the address book dialog. Check the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-and-remove-group-members-in-Outlook-3b650f4a-5c9b-4f94-a1bb-0cca4b1091de
Hi Vasil,
Yes, it works. many thanks!
I think the message confused me. It should say something like "Please manage members in Group" insdead of permission error.
Thanks,
