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TimCl
Copper Contributor
Apr 23, 2020

Making a Outlook Group with an Existing MS Team

We have a Team in Teams that we would like to make a group in outlook as well, so that the file sharing will be in the same place for Outlook Group and Team.   Is this possible? It seem pretty stra...
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VasilMichev
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Apr 23, 2020

There is no "other way" because every Team already has a Group behind it. You simply need to "unhide" it as Microsoft recently introduced a change that removes any such groups from the Outlook view. Use this:

 

Set-UnifiedGroup teamxxx -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled $false

 

Now I suppose it depends on where you created the group initially, but that's the general idea.

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Anwesh Gangula
Iron Contributor
Apr 16, 2024

Microsoft has https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18706228-prevent-team-from-showing-in-outlook-global-addres a change in how Office 365 Groups are handled by default in Exchange Online. 

 

Check out this blog post which talks about this change in detail:
https://blog.schertz.name/2018/07/displaying-teams-in-the-exchange-online-address-book/

 

Additional References:

  • https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/microsoft-team-doesnt-show-up-in-our-outlook-goups/f22c865c-713f-438d-ae67-c21bb433e49d?page=2
  • https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-make-the-teams-group-appear-on-outlook-groups-section/815596/3
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