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Convert O365 Group to Shared MB
Nope and nope. You will have to create the Shared mailbox manually, then do the switch. There is limited support for drag&drop operations within OWA and your other option is to use EWS to copy/move the messages between the Group and any other object.
And yes, there are definitely situations where good old shared mailboxes work better than Groups, blindly recommending Groups for everything will result in issues later on. Unless Microsoft decides to bring more "mailbox" features to Groups in the future...
Please forgive my total lack of knowledge; I am not an IT professional.
You mention there is a way to move/copy messages from the Group to the Shared Mailbox using EWS? Is that Exchange Web Services? Could you elaborate any on how I might use EWS?
The closest I have come to was to using PowerShell along with "Get-Mailbox" and "Search-Mailbox" to try and move/copy messages but that didn't seem to work; not all the messages seemed to get copied.
I have also tried using the Outlook desktop client and dragging from the group conversations to the Shared MB and I keep getting a "permissions" error. I am the global admin so if I don't have permissions, it would seem that that is just not a supported feature?
Drag & drop for Groups is currently only supported in the webmail (OWA).
EWS is indeed Exchange Web Services, an API that you can use to perform item-level operations on mailboxes. Many of the third-party migration products use it, but it's a code solution, not something you can run with a few clicks in the browser.
Search-Mailbox unfortunately doesn't work against Group mailboxes. eDiscovery does however, so it might also be an option - run a search against the Group mailbox and export the results to PST file, then import them into the shared mailbox.
