adding multiple users to a cloud based distribution list

Question

Hi all,

I have spent hours trying to get such a simple thing to work.

I need to add multiple users to a newly created o365 distribution list. In the gui you can add only 1 user at a time so I went to the cloud az powershell and got as far as  this command

az ad group member add -g d5681480-71cc-4d6b-af62-6881243ee5dd --member-id <objectid>

but does it need an object id for every single user you want to add to the group,

Surely there is an easier way to add multiple users from a csv into a o365 normal distribution list.

Hair pulled out here.

Thanks if anyone has any advice.

Brian

Answer 1

It worked Mike,

Awesome.

So what I did was connect to o365 powershell and ran

##export existing members on onpremise dl##

Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity dlname | select-Object Alias | export-csv c:\new.csv

###Import from 0365 shell alias list of members in o365 group##

import-csv C:\temp\new.csv | foreach {add-distributiongroupmember -identity dlname -member $_.alias}

Thanks for pointing me to the right way.

Brian

Answer 2

Thanks very much Mike,

I'll check that out.

Cheers and have a good day.

Brian

Answer 3

The easiest way to add multiple users into a distribution list is using powershell to import users into distribution list with a csv file.  For your reference https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/11dc55d8-31e1-4797-8fa1-27eb93e55516/how-can-i-add-members-to-a-new-distribution-group-from-a-csv-file?forum=exchangesvradminlegacy   and  https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_o365admin-mso_manage/bulk-add-members-to-a-distribution-list/31226acc-2c80-45d2-a998-f73b007f7c0a.