Recent Discussions
Combining Office 365 E1 with Microsoft 365 F3
Hello there, One of our customers has free Office 365 E1 licenses as they are a non-profit organization. As they need Enterprise Mobility and Security and had a special price for M365 F3, a good solution would be to add a Microsoft 365 F3 license to that same group of users to add functionality but it seems that this is not possible. I can however not find any resource that confirms that. Can anyone confirm if this is possible or not and where I can find some documentation on this?
Introducing the Groups Admin Role
Today, we are thrilled to announce that the the Groups admin role in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is now generally available. This new Azure Active Directory role enables you to perform group management tasks for and Azure AD security groups without requiring Global administrator permissions. Users with the Groups administrator role can use the Microsoft 365 Admin center, the Azure portal and other methods to create, edit, delete, and restore groups, and manage Office 365 Groups policies (example - creation, naming, and expiration policies). Figure 1 - Managing Groups in the Microsoft 365 Admin center Figure 2 - Managing Groups in the Azure portal You can provision the Groups admin role using Azure AD PowerShell: #Below steps need to be completed only once to install the Azure AD scripts Install-Module -Name AzureAD #Connect (use privileged role) Connect-AzureAD # Get the user to be assigned the role, replacing foo@contoso.com with the email address of the user $roleMember = Get-AzureADUser -SearchString "foo@contoso.com" # Enable the role for the tenant (skip this step if you have already enabled the role for your tenant). If you have already enabled the role, you will get an error (which you can ignore) $newRole = Enable-AzureADDirectoryRole -RoleTemplateId "fdd7a751-b60b-444a-984c-02652fe8fa1c" # Get the newly added role - replace the role template Id as per need $newRole = Get-AzureADDirectoryRole -Filter "roleTemplateId eq 'fdd7a751-b60b-444a-984c-02652fe8fa1c'" # Add the user to this role - copy the object Id from the output of the above command and use below Add-AzureADDirectoryRoleMember -ObjectId $newRole.ObjectId -RefObjectId $roleMember.ObjectId Limitations There are a few limitations that we are looking to address soon: The admin role is designed mainly for Office 365 groups and cannot manage other group types like distribution groups, mail-enabled security groups or shared mailboxes. This role cannot be used to update a Group’s email address or modify external mail or mail delivery options in the Microsoft 365 admin center. You cannot use Exchange PowerShell cmdlets to manage Office 365 Groups. A Groups admin cannot manage audit logs, access reports, or guest settings. We would love to hear your feedback or suggestions. Leave a comment here or reach out to us on user voice.
Microsoft Groups:Your request can’t be completed right now
Hi All, A user cannot access her Groups in the Outlook online version and on the Desktop version. When she clicks on a group, she gets the error message: Yourrequest can’t be completed right now. We also tried from the New Group website, and it is the same error. Can anyone help out?
Outlook groups - how to send emails from Groups
Hi, Is there a way to send emails from Microsoft 365 groups similar to distribution groups/security groups? I need to use a specific group to send emails rather than individual email addresses I have added the email address to my "From" section but it says I do not have permissions to send from the specific group. I own the group and can't see any option in the group to add permissions so looking for advice on what to do next? Thanks, Áine
Microsoft 365 Groups Public Roadmap
Is there a public roadmap for Microsoft 365 Groups. Mostly everything seems straight forward with Microsoft 365 Groups, but I have a large subset of employees who are resistant to change to Microsoft 365 Groups because the groups tab in Outlook Web will not search the files or calendar events in Outlook, will only search mail within the shared mailbox. If there is a public roadmap I was hoping to see if anything will be changing with the product or if its mainly stuck the way it is.dynamic group based on assigned license
Hi, is it possible to create a group with users based on a assigned license? So i want to include all users into this specific group who has e.g. an E3 license assigned, but not an E5. It seems, that the only way is to use the a ServicePlan name, not a SKU name, isn't it? Even better would be a dynamic membership rule based on the SKU, not on a ServicePlan. What i tried to do: 1. Get-MsolAccountSKU to find out the SKU name 2. Created a dynamic group without knowing which syntax to use :D 3. Used this dynamic membership rule as a workaround: (user.assignedPlans -any ((assignedPlan.service -match "NAME") -and (assignedPlan.capabilityStatus -eq "Enabled"))) (I found the ServicePlan names viaGet-MsolAccountSku | Where-Object {$_.SkuPartNumber -eq “ENTERPRISEPREMIUM”} | ForEach-Object {$_.ServiceStatus} Thank you ina advance. Patrick :)O365 groups missing - SharePoint Modern Team Site
Hello Everyone, We have over 450+ team site in our SPO tenant and we started to noticed that most of these site does not have an O365 group associated/attached to it. Looks like O365 groups did not get created during the site creation. > The built in filter view in SPO admin page- active sites - shows that all the sites has O365 groups however cannot find them under groups in any admin page (SPO,Exchange groups, or in AzurePortal) > Tried to create a new group via PS and i get this message Connect-SPOService -Url $SPOAdminCenterUrl -Credential $O365Cred $GroupDisplayName="Group Display Name" $GroupAlias="GroupAlias" Set-SPOSiteOffice365Group -Site $ModernSPOSite -DisplayName $GroupDisplayName -Alias $GroupAlias ==== Output ==== Set-SPOSiteOffice365Group : This site already has an O365 Group attached. At line:5 char:1 + Set-SPOSiteOffice365Group -Site https://modern.sharepoint.com/sites ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-SPOSiteOffice365Group], ServerException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ServerException,Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell.SetSPOOffice365Group Any suggestion on how to get a report or list of all the site which does not have O365 groups associated to the Modern site Thanks in advanced.Auto Set "Receive only replies to you" for all members of a Teams Group
Hello, I am looking for a way to automatically set the "Following" setting "Receive only replies to you" for all existing members of a MS Teams group. Preferably, I would like to have this setting be auto selected for all new members as well. I am comfortable working with MS Graph or PowerShell, but have had trouble finding any information on how to do this. This is the setting as shown in Outlook:Is there a "Sent" folder for an O365 Group Conversation?
If I grant a user access to SendAs the O365 Group, and they send an email "as the group", and they don't copy themself, where does that email actually go. I can't find any record of it anywhere inside the group (only in the inbox of the recipient).
Prevent members from unsubscribing
Hello, We have an open sources solution for Distribution Lists called Sympa, we are looking to migrate to Groups 365 or plained DL in exchange, but some features seems to be missing. Is it possible for a Group365 to block members from unsubscribing ? the only way I found is to use the switchHiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled : True but in doing so we loose the ability for owners to manage the membership 😞 Thanks in advance François
