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Is there a way to convert Office 365 group to Distribution group?
Hi, We have an Office 365 group and I granted a user "owner" permission, but she got permission error in her Outlook like below when she tried to edit the group. However she is able to edi...
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
Yes, you can convert an Office 365 Group to a distribution group. You'll have to do it with PowerShell, but the code is easy.
Capture the properties of the existing Office 365 group with Get-UnifiedGroup
Create the new DL with New-DistributionGroup
Update the properties with Set-DistributionGroup
Read the details of the group members with Get-UnifiedGroupLinks
Add the owners to the distribution group with Set-DistributionGroup
Update the DL members with Add-DistributionGroupMember
This does not look like a conversion it looks like you are recreating it as a DL but you get an error when you are using the same name from a group when creating a DL. It does not appear you can convert but delete and recreate as a DL.....