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Mike McLean (OFFICE)
Microsoft
MicrosoftOffice 365 Groups will now have unique mailNickname
Hi all,
We've completed an enhancement with the Azure Active Directory team which will now enforce mailNickname to be unique across all Office 365 Groups within a tenant. This will help ensure ...
Is it possible to create Office 365 groups created via Team Sites, Planner, Yammer, Stream and Teams with a unique display name? If yes, How?
We would like to prevent the creation of Office 365 groups with duplicate display names in the organization.
Microsoft has committed to delivering a naming policy for Office 365 Groups that might help. Hopefully, we will see news of this at Ignite.
For now, if you want to be sure that Office 365 Groups created using Outlook, OWA, the Outlook and Groups mobile app, or the New-UnifiedGroup cmdlet have names that meet a certain standard, you can use the Exchange Online distribution group naming policy. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj218693%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
This policy does not apply to groups created by admins or those created by Teams, Stream, or other Groups-enabled applications.