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Office 365 groups not visible in Outlook client
It seems that your groups are hidden by default to show them in outlook you have to change it via Powershell.
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Legal Department" -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $false
more info here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/manage-office-365-groups-with-powershell
Some Groups are in the Outlook list and some are not. And that is true on PCs in my office, home and laptop. If the default was not visible, how could some be visible and some not?
It depends on how the groups was created.
A O365 group created in the Teams client will automatically be hidden in Outlook (groups) and the Exchange addressbook.
O365 groups created in any other tool will NOT be hidden anywhere, not even if it created in the Teams Admin portal.
So groups made in Outlook for PC, Outlook Web Access, Exchange Admin portal, Azure AD Groups, etc - the list grows long. All these groups will be seen in Outlook per default.
Has Microsoft documented this somewhere? I can't seem to find it other than your comment.
- Not Microsoft, but close enough 😉 https://office365itpros.com/2021/07/08/how-hide-teams-enabled-groups-from-exchange-online/
- Thank you!
I have just created a new Group in the admin portal. I added 2 Owners and the group did not show up in Outlook, for the Owners.
I then added the Owners as Members also, and the Group showed up in Outlook within 20 seconds.
When you look in the Group they are only visible as Owners.
Poul_Erik_Sorensen That did it. Such a simple solution; thanks for sharing it.
Thank you for this solution, worked for me! Drove me nutz! Still trying to figure it out, it seems like there is a delay between creating groups in Microsoft 365 and having them show up in SharePoint/Outlook (takes hours/day)… tyPoul_Erik_Sorensen
It-Works This worked for me as well. I wonder if it may be that owners don't automatically have the mailbox show up in their Outlook by design. Perhaps the system is trying to accommodate someone who may be an administrator who is creating groups but doesn't necessarily want to see all the emails. This gives you the option of doing so by also becoming a member as well as an owner.
