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Hide Groups membership not working / available?
- Feb 14, 2017
I asked the question and here's the situation.
If you want to hide the membership of a group, use PowerShell to create the group and specify the HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled switch as the New-UnifiedGroup cmdlet still supports it. However, because Set-UnifiedGroup does not (it will again in the future), you cannot change the hidden membership status again. That is, until Microsoft updates Set-UnifiedGroup...
I just created a new group with PowerShell and set the parameter... But I also set the group to be Private.
I suspect that the access type is the key because if you attempt to set the group to public, you get an error saying that a group with hidden membership must be private.
Did you really use the parameters that you quoted? I just tried them and PowerShell flagged a "property set cannot be resolved using the specified named parameters" error.
Sorry I must have copied the wrong command. I just ran the following command:
New-UnifiedGroup -DisplayName "dev01" -Alias dev01 -HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled -AccessType Private
The list can be expanded in Outlook. I'm not worried about it. We created dynamic groups.
Thanks!
- TonyRedmondJan 13, 2018MVP
John,
Did you check with the account who created the group or an account that is not a member of the group?
Group members can see the membership. The account that creates a group is automatically a member and can therefore see the membership. People who are not a member cannot.
Dynamic groups cost extra because they need AAD premium licenses. Hence the reason why people like to avoid this feature. https://www.petri.com/microsoft-clarifies-premium-features-office-365-groups- AhmadSameemOct 06, 2022Copper Contributor
TonyRedmond I have an existing group and I would like to unhide memberships for the group. Do you think this is something possible existing groups?
- TonyRedmondOct 06, 2022MVP
No. AhmadSameem
Once a group membership is hidden, it can't be unhidden. You need to recreate the group.
https://office365itpros.com/2022/10/04/hidden-membership-groups/