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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
Victor_Ivanidze I registered just to reply to your comment. Well, that and I'm seeking advice on converting a Microsoft 365 Group to a simple Distribution Group. Anyway, Mr. Redmond's attitude is in fact lofty and while valid, unnecessarily elitist. Who cares how many posts a person has or how many people they've helped? That kind of attitude locks any newcomers out of the ecosystem and highlights a corruptible support model.
ANYWAY, when you downgrade a M365 Group, can you do so with the same name? (Edit: I mean name and email for the group) My guess is no, but that's the only question I have.
- Aloof. No need for it.
- From my lofty and somewhat valid position, I'd say that when you downgrade a Microsoft 365 group to become a distribution list, in fact what you're doing is creating a new distribution list object and transferring the properties of the Microsoft 365 group to the new list. You can transfer whatever properties you like, including the name, alias, display name, and primary SMTP address to the new DL, providing that you rename these properties for the Microsoft 365 group first. You can't have duplicates of names, aliases, and primary SMTP addresses, which is why the rename must happen before the properties can be assigned to the new DL.
