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Jim Van Eaton's avatar
Jim Van Eaton
Former Employee
Jul 21, 2016

Hello from the Office 365 Groups Engineering Team

Hi everyone!  I am the Group Engineering Manager for O365 groups.  I will be encouraging more of my engineers to participate in this forum  to help answer questions and share solutions.     Let the...
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Michael jackaman's avatar
Michael jackaman
Copper Contributor
Aug 16, 2016

Hi, we'd like a way to hide, by default, all O365 groups from our GAL. We want users to be able to create groups (both directly and/or via Planner), so controling/locking down that aspect doesn't solve the problem. Currently, we're having to run a Powershell script at regular, daily intervals to hide O365 groups.

 

Any advice welcomed!

 

Thanks,

Mike.

Matt Palmer's avatar
Matt Palmer
Copper Contributor
Aug 24, 2016

+ 1 on setting a default to hide group email addresses from the gal by default. we are in the exact same boat.

  • TonyRedmond's avatar
    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Aug 24, 2016

    Although you can't set a default to have Office 365 Groups hidden from the GAL, it's easy to do in PowerShell:

     

    [PS] Get-UnifiedGroup | Set-UnifiedGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $True

     

    Voila!  All groups will now be hidden. They can still be used, buit they will be hidden.

     

    Not that I would want this to happen...

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