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Distribution List from Teams group
Hello,
i'm testing out Team Groups and DLs.
I noticed that when i create a DL on outlook, then i can create a Teams Group from my DL.
I would love to know if there is a chance for the opposite situation.
Can i create a DL from an existing teams group? I noticed that going to the teams sharepoint conversations it seems to already have done a mail with the group name, but can't find the related email. How can i create an outlook DL from a teams group?
Thank you
Hi antoam7
See here
You can convert a Distribution List to a Microsoft 365 Group (What Teams is based on) however, you cannot convert a Microsoft 365 Group back to being a Distribution List. You would have to setup another DL in the Exchange Admin Centre or Microsoft 365 Admin Centre
Create and manage distribution groups in Exchange Online | Microsoft Docs
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
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Hi antoam7
See here
You can convert a Distribution List to a Microsoft 365 Group (What Teams is based on) however, you cannot convert a Microsoft 365 Group back to being a Distribution List. You would have to setup another DL in the Exchange Admin Centre or Microsoft 365 Admin Centre
Create and manage distribution groups in Exchange Online | Microsoft Docs
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
- so as i thought it's impossible to create a DL from a group... it would be very useful, there's tons of groups that could need a dl.
btw thank you so much 🙂
antoam7 Can you describe the use case in a little more detail? Why do you need a DL if you have a Team and thus can write posts in the Team's channels?
MagnusGoksoyrOLDProfile to allow external people to send email to the related DL
antoam7OK, and I assume you don't want to invite these external users as guests in the team? If not, it could be a solution ( but, without for that matter recommending it or saying that it is a good one, it's actually quite ugly, to let the external users send e-mails to a channel. However, this has some limitations and requires that the configuration allows it. You can read more about it here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/send-an-email-to-a-channel-in-teams-d91db004-d9d7-4a47-82e6-fb1b16dfd51e
However, my recommendation is that you add the external people as guests to the team and that you have the dialogue in channels in teams instead of communicating via e-mail (if the business case allows and enables this).
