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Nesting Groups
Just use Distribution lists if that's all you want, they are entirely just as available as they have ever been, fully support nesting etc.
Alternatively if you read up, TonyRedmond explains that you can nest an Office 365 group within a DL via powershell if you absolutely must.
You can add an Office 365 Group to a distribution group with PowerShell.
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Id DL -Member O365Group
Just because the GUI doesn't allow something doesn't mean that it cannot be done. This is why I recommend that all Office 365 Admins understand how to use and exploit PowerShell.
Or you could just read Office 365 for IT Pros and learn all the tips we have in that book... ;-)
I always forget about the eternal battle between gui and command line, but I still prefer gui. Maybe MS will add it someday. Thanks for the answer, and I'll read the book too when I can carve some spare time out.
Yeah, people do get pretty focused on GUIs, but as I point out all the time, you might not be satisfied by what engineers design in a system... PowerShell does a great job, if implemented correctly, of exposing the true potential of software. The cmdlets available for Office 365 Groups are pretty good. Those for Teams are awful https://www.petri.com/powershell-module-teams-critically-flawed.