Comments on: New-DistributionGroup: A PowerShell Cmdlet Which Gets No Respect

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 23:40:17 +0000

In reply to Eric Legault. Yep. You absolutely can. I am not sure when this changed, but maybe that's age playing tricks on me (again).

By: Eric Legault

Eric Legault — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:47:41 +0000

Hi Tony,
Note that you can indeed specify the owners and members in the New-DistributionGroup cmdlet – see the -Members and -ManagedBy parameters

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:49:03 +0000

In reply to Ishwarya S. Did you check the message trace for messages to see why the members of the DL are not receiving email? Is it just one DL or every DL?

By: Ishwarya S

Ishwarya S — Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:45:49 +0000

Hi ,

I am using powershell to send automatic mails to users group DL along with individual users .
Individual users are getting the mail but DLs are not getting the sent mail .

how to enable it in powershell for windows 10 . Please suggest me some solution.

Thanks
Ishwarya S

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 22:46:58 +0000

In reply to Alex. You mean migrate distribution lists? If so, this is possible using PowerShell. It takes some planning and coding to cover all the bases, but it's feasible and has been done before.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 19:13:45 +0000

Can we automate the mailbox migration from onprem to O365 using ps script?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 23:13:05 +0000

In reply to Beto Schmitt. I don't believe you can add a distribution list as a member of a shared mailbox.

By: Beto Schmitt

Beto Schmitt — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:10:08 +0000

Olá!

Agradeço a ajuda, mas o que procuro é:
– uma conta compartilhada ter como membro uma lista de distribuição DL;

É possível?
Obrigado

By: Paul Westlake (Content+Cloud)

Paul Westlake (Content+Cloud) — Wed, 12 May 2021 07:57:51 +0000

Good article Tony and having just had to perform the arduous task of “migrating” 9,000 DL’s from on-prem AD to become Cloud managed groups in AAD, I can honestly say Microsoft *really* need to invest in this area.

Not to mention that AAD Groups of Type Distribution cannot be changed to become Mail Enabled Security Groups, they have to be removed and recreated!

And of course Update-DistributionGroupMember is great to bulk add members *As long as they all exist*! Even if one of the members you are adding is missing the whole CMDLET fails leading to complex pre-validation routines to build the members lists which, in itself, slows the process.

Lastly, if you do want to perform this process en-mass and some of the groups in AD on-prem are mail enabled security groups, without major investigation into where they are permitting access, you need to use Disable-DistributionGroup and leave them there, leading to disconnect between the DL in the AAD and the Security Group in AD!

Definitely Time to Consider DLs Again!