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Cannot add a "contact" in Exchange Online to an Office 365 Group as a Guest
Thanks George Khalil for reaching out! Currently adding of mail contacts as guest is not supported, however there is way you can add mail contacts for which you would need the administrator to remove the other mail-enabled object, after which the guest user object can be added by the group owner or by an administrator running cmdlet with mSExchHideFromAddressLists property as $false, this property would ensure that the contact is visible in GAL.
You can refer tenant admin documentation https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Guest-access-to-Office-365-groups-Admin-Help-7c713d74-a144-4eab-92e7-d50df526ff96?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Alternatively there is a very good and informative article written by TonyRedmond https://www.petri.com/external-access-office-365-groups about guests in Groups, which includes details about Guests in Groups.
Is there an update to the timeline for this? It's now mid-April and this feature still isn't available!
Pat Woods wrote:Is there an update to the timeline for this? It's now mid-April and this feature still isn't available!
"Add Mail Contact as guest to Office 365 Group" is still listed as 'In Development'. I haven't seen an actual timeline associated with that status.
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-roadmap#abc
So, where is this now. I followed your link to the road map and cannot find a reference to this. I have this issue as well and would like to know when it will be a reality.
Hi Casey, This feature got released this summer. Its functional in Outlook end-points. You should try it out. Let me know if you have any questions!
It is also updated in documentation; here is one article by one of Exchange MVPs https://www.petri.com/office-365-groups-mail-contacts
Sahil,
I've looked at this avenue and it simply isn't feasible to manage large groups of contacts this way. Adding a user level feature is not a solution for most any company.
I called o365 support and was pointed in the direction of the PowerShell Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet as this doesn't appear to be something that I can solve using the Admin Center or the Exchange Admin Center since contacts simply are not visible when working with Office 365 Groups.. The bad thing is that after support suggested this solution they tucked their tail between their legs and ended the call.
Still, i cannot get the CMDLET to work. I am attempting to sort this out with community support on this post.This is really something that needs to be addressed and a good article written about,
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/f080f8ae-9ca3-436e-9d78-6d64a777ed5c/powershell-addunifiedgrouplinks?forum=ITCG&prof=required
Thanks for your response. It is appreciated even if it didn't solve the larger problem.
