This operation can only be performed by a manager of the group

Question

Hi All

I am using exchange 2016 hybrid environment. I have an onprem DL and i want to remove a user lets say user1@Company portal .com from the owner of the DL dl1@Company portal .com. i am getting the below error while changing the ownership. Experts guide me.

You don't have sufficient permissions. This operation can only be performed by a manager of the group

Answer 1

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-distributiongroup?view=exchange-ps

Example:

Set-DistributionGroup dl1@contoso.com -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck -ManagedBy @{Remove=user1@contoso.com}  

Note:

Answer 2

Use Exchange powershell (On-Prem Exchange)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/remove-distributiongroupmember?view=exchange-ps

Example:

Remove-DistributionGroupMember -Identity dl1@contoso.com  -Member user1@contoso.com -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck  

Answer 3

i want to remove the user from DL owner, user is not the member of the DL.