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TonyRedmond
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Apr 05, 2018

Hiding Office 365 Groups Created by Teams from Exchange Clients

Teams now hides the Office 365 Groups that it creates from Exchange clients (Outlook, OWA, and the mobile apps). That’s as it should be for groups created for new teams. If you want to hide groups ...
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VinceTTG
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Aug 01, 2022
we are creating the groups from the Teams client
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TonyRedmond
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Aug 01, 2022
I just created a new team using the Teams desktop client and see:

get-unifiedgroup -id da87b93b-b0f7-40ad-a742-0eb420679ae9 | fl *hidden*


HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled : True
HiddenGroupMembershipEnabled : False
HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled : True

This is what I expect. The teams created from the TAC and Microsoft 365 admin center have HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled and HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled set to False.
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    Ponderosa007
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 26, 2024

    BisonBrianTownsend 

    Same issue for us as well. New groups created in Teams are showing up in the GAL by default.

    Did you end up submitting a ticket to Microsoft to get this resolved?

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    TonyRedmond
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    Jan 29, 2024
    Well, I don't work for Microsoft, so I can't say... If you have a problem, make sure that Microsoft knows by filing a formal support request.
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    BisonBrianTownsend
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 29, 2024

    VinceTTG TonyRedmond 
    18 months later and this is still happening.
    I ran into the issue today with people trying to email the group address that shows up in the GAL - found this thread among some others that pointed me to the two "hiddenFrom*" attributes

    I went through and bulk updated every group to be hidden

    I then created a new test group using the TAC and it still gets created with the attributes set to False
    so we have to manually hide all new groups created in the admin center.....

    I'm struggling to understand why this was ever default behavior - why show a group in the address list that cannot accept emails?

    Is there an ETA for this to be adjusted?



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    VinceTTG
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 01, 2022
    Thank for your reply Tony, I did the same test and it turns out the group was set to be hidden by default.

    Looks like with us the issue is related to a single user. I will check with the user on how is he creating these groups that are then showing up on GAL.

    The user is not an Admin so I am assuming that he is using the Teams app. I'll still check with him and update you here.
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    TonyRedmond
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    Aug 01, 2022

    That being said... I went back and looked at https://office365itpros.com/2021/02/25/teams-consistent-settings/ from last year, which reported on MC238795. This message center update says:

     

    Unlike current teams created in the Teams admin center, after this change new teams will be hidden in Outlook experiences:

    • The new team will not be displayed in Outlook clients, such as Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web.
    • The new team will not be displayed in the Outlook Address Book; in address lists for selecting message recipients; or in the Browse Groups dialog when searching groups.

    Obviously, this isn't happening in the TAC right now, so I'll flag this to the developers. The teams created from the desktop client should be hidden from Outlook though...