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Brass Contributor

Aug 08, 2016

Renaming of O365 groups

Hi all, I tried to search to see if anyone had already asked, but did not find any answers. Today, I renamed one of my O365 Groups, but found the experience to be underwhelming: - No option ...

Office 365 Groups

SanthoshB1

Bronze Contributor

hi, along with set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -PrimarySMTPAddress <new email address>, you need to use set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddress SMTP:<newemailaddress> as this will remove the old email address from Office365 Group identity so you can reuse it.

Patrick Faust

Copper Contributor

Aug 12, 2018

Hi,

I used the command syntax

set-unifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddress SMTP:<newemailaddress>

This is what my Attribute "EmailAddresses" looked before (slightly changed content):

EmailAddresses : {SPO:SPO_0affa9c4-1111-2222-3333-162e4873a42e@SPO_89617050-2222-1111-3333-cb7206607595,
 smtp:TestingMSTeams@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com, SMTP:TestingMSTeams@domain.me}

After running the command without failures, the attribute contents look same but the SPO: part is missing. Is this critical or can I proceed on using my Group without any problems now?

After running the command:

EmailAddresses : {smtp:TestingMSTeams@mydomain.onmicrosoft.com, smtp:TestingMSTeams@domain.me,
 SMTP:TestingMSTeams2@pia.me}

Appreciate your feedback

ITSourcePro
Brass Contributor
Jan 25, 2019
You would start with this command as noted above:
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -PrimarySMTPAddress <NewEmailAddress>

Then the correct command to remove the old address to free it up:
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddresses @{remove=”<NewEmailAddress>”}

You can also rename the Alias:
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -Alias <NewAlias>

I'd imagine you could add your SPO record back with:
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity <GroupName> -EmailAddresses @{add=”<SPO:SPO_*>”}
The SPO record has to do with SharePoint Online.