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Mike McLean (OFFICE)
Microsoft
Aug 17, 2017Office 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 ...
TonyRedmond
Aug 19, 2017MVP
Shouldn't Groups make sure that the mail nickname is unique across all types of mail-enabled objects rather than just inside its own set? Having a synchronisation clash with a DL (for instance) could also be a problem...
Andy David
Aug 19, 2017MVP
Exactly. The alias should be unique across all mail-enabled objects in the tenant. If I have an ADFS replying party passing mailnickname/alias as a claim for example, any dups will cause problems, just to give another example beyone Tony's .