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You can only add individual people from inside or outside your organization
I cannot figure this one out. We have 3 users on different machines with Office Pro Plus (2016) on Windows 7 (fully patched) that cannot add users to O365 Groups through Outlook. They can view, c...
Gabe_Bratton
Microsoft
MicrosoftDavid_Petree I am not aware of any known issues with groups currently. I tested adding members from OWA and Outlook just to make sure and its working for me right now. There was a service event earlier today, https://twitter.com/MSFT365Status. Its possible that was interfering with adding the users to the group. I have noticed in the past that sometimes there is a little time right after group creation for it to be available to add users. Please try again and see if you can get it working.
Gabe,
Thank You for the reply. I did wait a day and went back to add a user and it worked. I guess this was a propagation issue. I just have never seen this over the last 10 years of messing with Office 365. That is what got me searching online to find out if anyone ever seen this before and it led me to this post. All good now
David Petree
Microsoft MVP
Thank You for the reply. I did wait a day and went back to add a user and it worked. I guess this was a propagation issue. I just have never seen this over the last 10 years of messing with Office 365. That is what got me searching online to find out if anyone ever seen this before and it led me to this post. All good now
David Petree
Microsoft MVP