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Is there a way to convert Office 365 group to Distribution group?
Only Outlook 2016 properly recognizes Groups and allows you to manage their members. And you need to use the relevant Group controls, not the address book dialog. Check the documentation here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-and-remove-group-members-in-Outlook-3b650f4a-5c9b-4f94-a1bb-0cca4b1091de
Yes, you can convert an Office 365 Group to a distribution group. You'll have to do it with PowerShell, but the code is easy.
Capture the properties of the existing Office 365 group with Get-UnifiedGroup
Create the new DL with New-DistributionGroup
Update the properties with Set-DistributionGroup
Read the details of the group members with Get-UnifiedGroupLinks
Add the owners to the distribution group with Set-DistributionGroup
Update the DL members with Add-DistributionGroupMember
This does not look like a conversion it looks like you are recreating it as a DL but you get an error when you are using the same name from a group when creating a DL. It does not appear you can convert but delete and recreate as a DL.....
- can you please mention the power-shell commands in more details ?!
i just need to know the exact stepsWould you like me to write the code too?
- yes , if that possible
This just gets all the members in the m365 group, creates and then adds them app to a new distribution group, it doesn't do anything destructive. I just found it easier to do this, then set the options on the distribution group afterwards.
I signed up just to post because I thought the other guy was being a bit mean.
What I've written isn't great, but it'll work.#First open powershell as administrator (Start > run > type:ise > rclick powershell > run as administrator)
#Install Exchange Online Management Shell
Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement#Connect to Exchange Online, log in with your admin account
Connect-ExchangeOnline#Source M365 Group (e.g. email address removed for privacy reasons)
$M365GroupName = 'source_m365group_name'#Target Distribution Group (e.g. email address removed for privacy reasons)
$DistGroupName = 'testdist'#Creates the new distribution group with the above name
New-DistributionGroup -Name $DistGroupName#Get the Members from the M365 Group
$M365GroupMembers = Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity $M365GroupName | Get-UnifiedGroupLinks -LinkType Member | Select -expandproperty PrimarySmtpAddress
Foreach ($member in $M365GroupMembers){
"Adding $member..."
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $DistGroupName -Member $member
}
