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Nesting Groups
Just use Distribution lists if that's all you want, they are entirely just as available as they have ever been, fully support nesting etc.
Alternatively if you read up, TonyRedmond explains that you can nest an Office 365 group within a DL via powershell if you absolutely must.
I’m perfectly happy to keep using DLs for what I need, and it sounds like that’s the answer—thanks.
My problem remains that Microsoft is pushing the new group types as a replacement for DLs, when they don’t offer the very basic functionality that everyone uses DLs for. SMBs don’t have the time, patience or money to turn on and learn how to use advanced features (including console functionality), or hire a consultant to do something so basic and fundamental to email list management. It shouldn’t be confusing for a part time IT ops guy to go in and create a hierarchy of DLs that do the right thing—that’s the vast majority of use cases.
/mike
Mike,
You can be sure that the lack of functionality in Office 365 Groups to allow them to replace DLs has been the cause of a lot of feedback to Microsoft going back to the introduction of Groups in November 2014. Indeed, at that time, I was roundly criticized by some of my MVP peers for standing up at a meeting in Redmond and saying to the Groups development team that what they planned to do was not up to scratch. The lack of management annoyed me more than anything else at that point (largely taken care of now), but other issues are still present. I don't know if nesting will be taken care of in the near future because of the way that Groups are now used as a membership service across Office 365. In some respects, Microsoft has traded utility for usefulness, but I can understand how they came to take that decision.
Read https://www.petri.com/microsoft-crusade-office-365-groups for more on this topic, if you are interested.