View Group membership in outlook app for any user
Earlier version of Outlook Desktop application use to provide Group / DL membership information of any user, within the user property window opened from the Address Book or from any email. But the latest version of Outlook Windows app as well as the Outlook Webapp for Microsoft 365 no longer provide this Group / DL membership info within the User property. Does this require some configuration change at the Admin level (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/manage-microsoft-365-groups-with-powershell?view=o365-worldwide#hide-microsoft-365-groups-from-the-global-address-list) ? OR Is there an alternate option available within the new Outlook Windows app to view the Group / DL membership of any user?
Outlook App on phone : distribution lists and distribution groups
A client uses distribution lists (DLs, aka Outlook Contact Groups) to send mailshots Bcc: to external contacts who are members of their club. There are 21 distribution lists, each with typically 300 addressees; some members are in more than one list. They update the lists and add or remove lists using Windows Outlook. A few of the lists are nested, with several child lists being mailable from a parent list as well as individually. All fine. Client happy. They now wish to mailshot from phones as well as from Windows desktop. But Outlook Android and iOS apps don’t support DLs*, whether created on the phone or synched from Exchange. They find Outlook on the Web clunky to use with a phone screen. And the eventual solution must be manageable from Outlook and not need the Exchange Admin Centre (EAC) or Powershell. They were advised (in Microsoft documentation I think) to switch to ‘Microsoft 365 Groups’ which ARE supported by the Outlook app. But Microsoft 365 Groups themselves – with their own Sharepoint site and group calendar as well as mail – are clearly for team-working and collaboration, and managing 21 of them just to distribute mail is NOT the most elegant solution and don't resemble DLs at all. And Microsoft 365 Groups cannot apparently be nested. MSFT has made the wrong assumption that a DL has been superseded by a Group – that a Group contains everything a DL does and more. And that is the problem: Groups with or without Sharepoint libraries and Calendars are clearly designed for Teams. But ‘Traditional’ DLs are also used for mailshots to customers, suppliers and so on. Does anyone want their customers to receive an introductory email saying “Welcome to the XYZ Group…use the group to share messages and files, and to coordinate group events” ? And ‘traditional’ DLs are maintained via Windows Outlook (or Outlook on the web) by clerical staff who should not (and do not want to) be exposed to the fearsome technicalities of EAC or Microsoft 365 AC. Distribution groups (NB not DLs!) sound a more promising solution, but there is no obvious way to create one in Windows Outlook: Groups Yes, but Distribution Groups No. If a Distribution Group is created in EAC, it is then necessary to go via Delivery Management to restrict the specified sender. To resemble sending Bcc: to a DL, there needs to be one nominated sender, and the recipient must be able to reply to the sender but not to see anyone else to whom the email has been distributed (and hence not be able to reply to them). If any of this functionality is available with a Distribution Groups, perhaps someone can enlighten me. My client is now seriously testing WhatsApp, on the basis that even though broadcast lists (=Bcc DLs) are only supported on a single phone, this is an improvement on the Outlook app that doesn’t support them at all. (WhatsApp Groups, =Cc: DLs, are synched over up to 4 devices, including Windows PCs) Since there seems to be nothing relevant in the MSFT Roadmap for the mobile app, suggestions please? * if this is a restriction of EAS, MSFT seems to have been forgotten that much – perhaps most – phone use is now on WiFi-enabled broadband where the bandwidth and latency constraints should not be a problem.
Duplicate calendar in desktop Outlook
9 users all have a "SharedCalendar" ((a Shared Mailbox) that they put all events on so that all users can see. They don't use their personal calendars at all. Within the last couple of weeks, when they open Outlook, they see the calendar twice. They can close one, but it re-loads next time they launch Outlook. Not a major problem, but apparently a major annoyance for a couple of key users. I ran the "outlook.exe /resetnavpane" and the problem seemed to have resolved, but then the shared calendar disappears from their phones. As soon as I add it back to their phones then the duplicate re-appears in Outlook. I feel like I'm missing something simple. Any suggestions? Thanks,
List Outlook Calendar Group Graph api - Not listing Shared Calendars
Hi Team, I am trying to get the events associated with the M365 Group shared calendar using the Outlook Calendar resource of Graph api. Here i cannot use the Groups resource of Graph api due to security limitations on Graph.Read.All permission. So, When trying to analyze observed that request - https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/calendargroups is not returning Shared Calendar details. But, only returning info on below. • My Calendars • Other Calendars • People Calendars Is this a restriction or expected behavior of this Graph api request. Can you please let us know. Reference: List events - Microsoft Graph v1.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-list-events?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http Thanks & Regards, Bhanu