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Brass Contributor

Mar 16, 2017

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Manage automatic creation of direct reports group

Please let me know what you think: "Beginning in March 2017, managers who have 2-20 direct reports, do not already have a direct reports group, and have permissions to create groups in O...

Office 365 Groups

cfiessinger
Mar 21, 2017
THANK YOU all for your feedback, please see an update in this new thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Update-Auto-creation-of-Direct-Reports-group-in-Outlook-MC96611/m-p/55318#M2740

Greg Lamb

Copper Contributor

Mar 30, 2017

So our tenant organisational config says this is enabled although the number of mailboxes is way more than 50,000. I don't see any direct report groups created for any users so is it something that is coming or not working because we have too many users?

BenSchorr

Former Employee

Mar 30, 2017

Greg Lamb wrote:

So our tenant organisational config says this is enabled although the number of mailboxes is way more than 50,000. I don't see any direct report groups created for any users so is it something that is coming or not working because we have too many users?

It's being rolled out to a very limited number of customers currently and not to any with more than 50,000 mailboxes.

Greg Lamb
Copper Contributor
Mar 31, 2017
Thanks. Is there a way to easily create such a group manually or does it have to be a normal group creation process?
- BenSchorr
  Former Employee
  Mar 31, 2017
  It would be a normal group creation process, though if you happen to have an existing distribution list that has the correct membership you might be able to migrate it. See this article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Migrate-distribution-lists-to-Office-365-Groups-Admin-help-787d7a75-e201-46f3-a242-f698162ff09f?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US&fromAR=1