Command New-DistributionGroup doesn't work

Eduardo_Ricardez 

Hi, Eduardo.

That's what I was expecting to hear.

The commandlet definitely exists, however, when you run Connect-ExchangeOnline, only the commandlets you have access to are loaded.

If you don't see a particular command, it means the account you have logged in with during Connect-ExchangeOnline does not have enough access to see and use that commandlet.

Using the following article's guidance, we can see which roles give access to New-DistributionGroup:

• Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet | Microsoft Learn

(Get-ManagementRole -Cmdlet New-DistributionGroup).Name |
    ForEach-Object {
        Get-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role $_ -Delegating:$false | Format-Table -AutoSize Role, RoleAssigneeType, RoleAssigneeName;
    }

Output:

So, we can see from this that the account you logged in with using Connect-ExchangeOnline needs to be a member of either:

• Organization Management
• Recipient Management

The one thing that is for certain is that if you're not seeing the command, your account does not have the necessary rights to do so. It's not a problem with the commandlet not existing.

Cheers,

Lain