Hi,

I'm just in the process of setting up O365 ProPlus in a high school deployment.  We are synching our local AD to O365 hence we also have quite a few security groups visible under the sidebar's Groups menu in the O365 admin console.  When I click on this menu the group list appear, with columns named Name, Email address and status.  In our local AD we have assigned a email address for each group but is O365 the email column is empty for all synched groups.  When I try to edit a group, there is no email field to edit.

I certainly don't want to maintain two group hiearchies, one for the security groups and another for Echange distribution groups, both with equal memberships.  How can I assign, say, an email address like mygroup@mydomain.com to security group mygroup so messages to mygroup@mydomain.com get distributed to all members of mygroup?

Btw, what is the relationship between outlook's global address list and a user's contact list? Can I have a 'folder' or group in a user's contacts whic contains an up-to-date global address list so the user doesn't need to relate to two both Contacts and Address list when  searching for email addresses..?

Thanks for comments on this

regards

Tor 

Hi Tor,

Since this issue is more related to Office 365, I'd recommend you post a new question in the Office 365 Community forum:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.

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