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Hide Groups membership not working / available?
Hi all, It seems that the hide membership option we had for Office 365 Groups is not working / available: http://www.michev.info/Blog/Post/1314/you-can-now-hide-group-membership-for-modern-groups-in...
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...
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
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?
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/
TonyRedmond Another quick questions. Can we hide membership for security groups?
For mail-enabled security groups, Yes:
Set-DistributionGroup -id Mailbox.Restrict -HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled:$True
For plain-old security groups, No.
This is an Exchange Online feature, not an Azure AD feature.