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Office 365 PowerShell: Add-DistributionGroupMember Command

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Office 365 PowerShell: Add-DistributionGroupMember Command

Summary

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Error

Error While adding members in Mail Enabled Security Group. You don't have sufficient permissions. This operation can only be performed by a manager of the group.

help

help Add-DistributionGroupMember -Detailed
help Add-DistributionGroupMember -Parameter BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck

Solution

The reason for the error is group moderation is enabled and that needs to be skipped while adding members:

Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity 'GroupName' `
-Member 'MemberID' -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck -Confirm:$false -Verbose