Change delivery settings in distribution group in Exchange Admin center

Question

Hi! How can I change the settings for a distrubution group in admin exchange center? I am the creater of this group and owns it. When I choose the setting I want to correct I get the error message "There was some issue saving your changes" and this have proceeded for two weeks now. The setting I want to change is "delivery management" to allow people both inside and outside of my organization to send mail to this group. I have tried to do this change every day for two weeks now. Who can I contact to help me? Is it not possible to perform this change?

Answer 1

Is this for Exchange Online, or Exchange Server? If you are having trouble with the UI, you can try performing this via PowerShell, here's an example:

Set-DistributionGroup ******@domain.com -RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled $false

Answer 2

Hi @Jakobsen, Karen,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform!

Based on your description, the error message you're seeing may indicate a synchronization issue or a backend permission conflict that is preventing changes from being saved.

To resolve this issue, you can try the following steps:

1. Sometimes, browser-specific issues can cause problems. Try making the changes using a different browser or in a private/incognito window.
2. Make sure you have the permissions you need to make changes to the distribution group. Sometimes, even if you are the owner, you may need other permissions.
3. If the Exchange Management Center does not work, try making changes using the Exchange Management Shell. Here are the commands you can use:

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity "YourGroupName" -DeliveryManagement "YourDesiredSetting"

Replace "YourGroupName" with the name of your distribution group and "YourDesiredSetting" with the appropriate setting.

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Best,

Jake Zhang