How to setup O365 groups and email for a mix of internal and external receivers?

[Webmaster_Blauwwit81]

Hi,

For our soccer club I am setting up O365 and I am running into a scenario for which I do not know what the best solution would be.

• Board and committees get O365 group and teams to work together (e.g. activity committee)
• Few people of each committee get a O365 login (e.g. person1@blauwwit81.nl) as we only have 50 licenses. Other get guest account.
• Email send to committee has to be send to multiple people including ones with email address of O365 account and others with personal email addresses
• Email to committee is not the same list as members of a committee team
• Board has to have access to all committee teams sites

I was thinking of setting it up like this

• Create O365 group called ActivityCommittee with members board and involved persons (either by O365 login or guest account). Email for group would be like ActivityCommittee_Teams@blauwwit81.nl
• Create mail contacts for external people
• Create distribution list ActivityCommittee@blauwwit81.nl to forward email to external people as well as O365 accounts

Would this the best way or is there a better solution?

Kind regards,

 Anton Beerens

[#2]

That should work, and if the users aren't added to the Team with their "desired" email address, you don't have much choice but to create a separate DG anyway.

[#3]

I have a very similar issue and wanted to know if this worked?

[#4]

@PeteSioloNZ 

Works for us.