Change O365 group email address using powershell
I am trying to change primarty SMTP of Office365 group but getting error: We failed to update the unified group. Please try again later. + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-UnifiedGroup], TaskException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=CY4PR06MB3173,RequestId=3179c7a9-9182-449c-9bb1-d1a85e266ac1,TimeStamp=11/30/2017 1:22:37 AM] [FailureCategory=Cmdlet-TaskException] 64E F00B1,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RecipientTasks.SetUnifiedGroup + PSComputerName : ps.outlook.com I am following steps mentioned in https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Is-there-a-way-to-change-O365-group-email-address-using/td-p/49872 but no luck. Any help? The cmdlet i am running is : Set-UnifiedGroup car@abc.onmicrosoft.com -EmailAddresses:@{add="car@domain.com"} Set-UnifiedGroup car@abc.onmicrosoft.com -PrimarySmtpAddresses "car@domain.com"Small group shared calendar does not update
Hello, I just migrated a client to 365 from exchange on prem, were trying out office 365 groups for the first time and having a TERRIBLE experience with the shared calendar. This is a small law firm that handles all of their bookings through the shared law firms calendar, and within 2 days they had 5 meetings double booked due to the shared calendar not updating in peoples outlook desktop. The group was set up and the calendar added under everyones outlook calendar tab. half of the users could not book the calendar even though they had owner rights in the group. We had to rebuild their outlook profiles to get the shared calendar to work. Now, even though they can add appointments directly to the calendar from desktop outlook, the other users have to leave their calendar, click on the group in outlook and open the calendar from there, and as soon as they do the group calendar updates in the calendars tab. one suggetion I found online was to disable downloading of shared folders in outlook account. I did this last night and they are going to test today... If this does not work we will be ditching groups and just creating a sharepoint calendar for their team to use.Office 365 Groups will now have unique mailNickname
Hi all, We've completed an enhancement with the Azure Active Directory team which will now enforce mailNickname to be unique across all Office 365 Groups within a tenant. This will help ensure resiliency across the tenant and facilitate smooth sync scenarios to on-premises. When Office 365 Groups are created, the name provided is used for mailNickname as well as the first portion of SMTP Address. Previously, Office 365 Group creation did not enforce the mailNickname to be unique across Office 365 Groups. If multiple Office 365 Groups contain the same mailNickname, customers can encounter collisions when these groups are sync’d to on-premises via AAD Connect. In Azure Active Directory, an enforcement has been placed on the mailNickname property so that it will be unique across Office 365 Groups. Previously created Office 365 Groups that have duplicate mailNicknames will not be affected. If a user attempts to modify the mailNickname property through PowerShell or other means, the service will verify whether the new mailNickname being specified is unique. If not, the modification will be rejected. Additionally, a user can create an Office 365 Group that has the same mailNickname as an Office 365 Group that has been soft deleted. If a user attempts to restore the soft deleted group, they will be prompted to change the mailNickname. Mike McLean Office 365 Groups Senior Program Manager
Add external email addresses to distribution group in AD synced Office 365?
Hello, I've been trying to see about adding some external email addresses for vendors that need to be in the loop frequently. The vendors have email addresses from their own domain. I have already added the addresses as contacts in Office 365 address list, but when I try to add them to a pre-exisitng group synced by AD it won't let me because it is synced with AD (which makes sense). So I created a group directly in Office 365, but it only seems to be allowing me to add users of our own domain, and not these external addresses. How can this best be done?Introducing 'Follow in inbox' and other improvements for managing group emails in Outlook
The latest set of updates for Groups in Outlook introduces new ways to manage the group emails you receive in your inbox. These updates are, in large part, based on customer feedback about the Groups subscription model. That model has now been replaced with Follow in inbox. Read more on these feature improvements in our Outlook blog post. We are rolling out these improvements in a phased manner. So, if you don’t see these improvements in your version of Outlook yet, please be patient. We’ll get these features to you soon! Thank you for all the feedback. Let us know what you think of these latest updates.
