Hide Office 365 Groups

Question

Until recently, you had two different kinds of groups and both could be managed through Exchange: Security Groups, and Distribution Groups. Now there is a new beast in the jungle called an Office 365 Group. An Office 365 Group cannot, as far as I can tell, be managed in Exchange. And in the general Office365 Admin Portal, there is no way provided to hide an Office 365 Group from the GAL. If anyone has a way to do this, either via the GUI or via PowerShell, I would love to know!

Answer 1

Hi Michel,

You can use following PowerShell cmdlet to hide an Office 365 Group from GAL:

Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity *** Email address is removed for privacy *** -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

For more information about the cmdlet Set-UnifiedGroup, please refer to:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt238274(v=exchg.160).aspx

Thanks,

Franky

Answer 2

Thank you! Exactly what I needed.