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SimonAllison
Iron Contributor
Feb 02, 2018
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Is there a way to convert Office 365 group to Shared Mailbox easily? + DL's changing email address

Is there a way to convert Office 365 group to Shared Mailbox easily using powershell, we dont want to loose the conversations either or is it too complex.     Users dont want an office 365 group,...
exchange
microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Groups
migration
On-Premises
  • Jim Sepanik's avatar
    Jim Sepanik
    Dec 04, 2018

    You should be able to delete group and then restore the mail into a new shared mailbox.

    $deletedGroup=get-mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox -GroupMailbox -Filter {name -like "o365groupname*"}

    $targetuser=get-mailbox -Identity sharedbox@yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com

     

    New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceMailbox $deletedGroup.DistinguishedName -TargetMailbox $targetuser.DistinguishedName -AllowLegacyDNMismatch -Verbose

     

    To show the restore status
    Get-MailboxRestoreRequest

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Feb 03, 2018
Mmm...AFAIK, what you are asking for does not exist Today. By the way: have you tried the drag and drop capabilities you have in Groups? Is it not enough for your users?
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    SimonAllison
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 03, 2018

    lost without a folder list , they don't get the drag and drop concept users never have, if they had a archive button, with archived conversations then maybe !  

    • VasilMichev's avatar
      VasilMichev
      MVP
      Feb 03, 2018

      The only thing that comes close to migration is to do an eDiscovery search and use the resulting set to upload into a Shared mailbox. Or use some EWS-based script or 3rd party tool to do a "migration". But as Juan said, there's nothing built-in.

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