Archiving Microsoft 365 Groups (and Teams) with PowerShell
Once Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams reach the end of their useful life, it’s good to archive them so that their data stays online and available for eDiscovery. A recent request looked for help to archive 600 Groups at the end of the academic year. The script described here might help solve the problem. https://office365itpros.com/2020/07/03/archiving-microsoft-365-groups-teams-powershell/Announcing support for new Groups properties via Microsoft Graph
We are excited to announce that Microsoft 365 Groups now supports more flexible methods of hiding and showing groups in any Outlook client or the address book. Two new properties have been introduced to the Group Resource Type in Microsoft Graph: hideFromOutlookClients and hideFromAddressLists. Previously, these properties could only be changed via PowerShell. We now provide access to these properties via Microsoft Graph, which will help support additional customization through Power Automate and 3 rd party applications. Setting hideFromOutlookClients to True (which also sets hideFromAddressLists to True) prevents the group from showing in the Outlook left-hand navigation, prevents the group name from resolving during message creation, and prevents the group from showing in the Global Address List (GAL). If hideFromOutlookClients is set to False, hideFromAddressLists will also be set to False. Setting hideFromAddressLists by itself controls whether the group is hidden or shown in the GAL, but it won’t affect the Outlook left-hand navigation or name resolution during message creation. Changing hideFromAddressLists by itself does not change the value of hideFromOutlookClients. The default value for both properties is False, and they are only retrieved when using $select. The following example shows how to use the GET method to retrieve values for hideFromOutlookClients and hideFromAddressLists using Graph Explorer. Sample query: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/groups/ed8083cb-8540-46f9-b817-46866469695d?$select=displayName,description,hideFromOutlookClients,hideFromAddressLists These values can be updated using methods like PATCH, as shown in the following example: In the response, hideFromOutlookClients is now set to false. Both properties are updated: Updating just hideFromAddressLists will not have any effect on hideFromOutlookClients. You can find detailed API documentation here. As always, we welcome your feedback! Mike McLean Principal Program Manager Microsoft 365 GroupsProperties Mastered in Exchange Online Can Now Be Modified Without an Exchange Online License
We’re excited to announce that group properties mastered in Exchange Online can now be modified without assigning an Exchange Online license. Many customers have reported a desire to allow administrators who manage Microsoft 365 Groups (previously Office 365 Groups) the ability to modify properties mastered in the Exchange Online service without being assigned an Exchange Online license. Previously, any attempt to modify a property mastered in Exchange Online would require an Exchange Online license be assigned to the user attempting to make the change. The product team has recently finished deploying a change which will allow administrators without an Exchange Online license the ability to update Exchange-mastered properties through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center as well as API calls using Microsoft Graph. The following screenshots illustrate how this scenario is supported. A full list of properties mastered in Exchange Online can be found at the bottom of this post. Let us start with a user in Azure Active Directory named Isaiah Langer: Isaiah is assigned the role of “Global administrator”: Isaiah does not have any licenses assigned: Navigating to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, Isaiah finds the Marketing group: Isaiah is not an owner or a member of the Marketing group: Isaiah navigates to the “Settings” tab and discovers two properties which are both mastered in Exchange Online: Isaiah can enable “Allow external senders to email this group” and “Send copies of group conversations and events to group members”: After clicking “Save”, the properties are successfully updated: The full list of properties mastered in Exchange Online which can be modified without being assigned an Exchange Online license are the following: AcceptMessagesOnlyFrom AcceptMessagesOnlyFromDLMembers AcceptMessagesOnlyFromSendersOrMembers AllowExternalSenders AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents AutoSubscribeNewMembers CalendarMemberReadOnly ConnectorsEnabled DataEncryptionPolicy EmailAddresses EmailAddressPolicyEnabled GrantSendOnBehalfTo HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled IsSubscribedByMail MailTip MailTipTranslations ModeratedBy PrimarySmtpAddress RejectMessagesFrom RejectMessagesFromDLMembers RejectMessagesFromSendersOrMembers ReportToManagerEnabled ReportToOriginatorEnabled RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled SubscriptionEnabled UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled UnseenCount Mike McLean Principal Program Manager Microsoft 365 GroupsOffice 365 Groups will become Microsoft 365 Groups (crosspost)
Hi all, Cross-posting information from the Microsoft 365 Blog where Scott Schnoll announced recently that Office 365 Groups will become Microsoft 365 Groups. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/office-365-groups-will-become-microsoft-365-groups/ba-p/1303601 Looking forward to the future of Microsoft 365 Groups! Mike
