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KevinCrossman
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Nov 03, 2016

Email Address format for Outlook conversations in O365 Groups (onmicrosoft.com) - Bug or Feature?

We're starting to use Outlook based O365 Groups more and it appears the email address format is:   groupname@tenant.onmicrosoft.com  (as opposed to groupname@tenant.com)   Some of our users are c...
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cfiessinger
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Nov 03, 2016
Sounds like we need to improve our documentation (good feedback) but the same applies, using this cmdlets you can set the default to @tenant.com/your domain):
New-EmailAddressPolicy -Name Groups -IncludeUnifiedGroupRecipients -EnabledEmailAddressTemplates "SMTP:@contoso.com" -Priority 1
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Nov 03, 2016
Mmm...strange you are having this problem...in all the tenants where I'm using groups, group e-mails are in the form contoso.com without having to do any extra configuration
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    KevinCrossman
    MVP
    Nov 03, 2016

    Thanks for confiming and also for the CMDs and links. Looks like I need to talk to our email team.

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      Ivan54
      Bronze Contributor
      Nov 07, 2016

      Are you on Exchange Online-only, or in Exchange Hybrid (with MX pointing onPrem)?

      I'm on hybrid and I can't get our custom domain to work with O365 groups at the moment.