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DougTraylor
Copper Contributor
Oct 18, 2019

Create a Dynamic Distribution List from members of an "Office 365 Group"

Hello.  I have been asked to nest an Office 365 Group into a distribution list, but I don't believe this is possible.  I had the bright idea that I could create a Dynamic Distribution List from the m...
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  • DougTraylor's avatar
    DougTraylor
    Oct 22, 2019

    Ok, I figured it out using powershell. 🙂  The key turned out to be the recipientfilter needed the recipientType and memberofgroup attributes>

     

    New-DynamicDistributionGroup -Name "MyDDG" -RecipientFilter {((RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox') -and (memberOfgroup -eq "CN=MyO365Group_430c61d4-7b32-4b35-957b-644912193d28,OU=MyCompany.onmicrosoft.com,OU=Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations,DC=NAMPR01A004,DC=prod,DC=outlook,DC=com"))}

     

    Works like a charm.

    Thanks for looking!

     

    Doug

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VasilMichev
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What's the entire cmdlet? Here's an example that works just fine for me:

 

Get-Mailbox -Filter "MemberOfGroup -eq 'CN=default_8d405d20-65d9-4650-abca-352770e4438b,OU=tenant.onmicrosoft.com,OU=Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations,DC=EURPR03A001,DC=prod,DC=outlook,DC=com'"

 

And you can use the same filter for a DDG.

 

ChrisWebbTech that's not true, those are simply the attributes exposed in the UI, but you can use pretty much anything for the recipientfilter query if you do it via PowerShell.

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ChrisWebbTech
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Oct 19, 2019
Well. Learned something new. Docs never mentioned that. Good to know!

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