{"id":1053,"date":"2012-04-27T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T15:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2014-03-01T15:29:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T15:29:47","slug":"office-365-powershell-adding-distribution-group-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/2012\/04\/office-365-powershell-adding-distribution-group-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 Adding Distribution Group Owner | Powershell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some migrations of\u00a0Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) to Office 365 would result in the owner of &#8220;Distribution Groups&#8221; being blank with no access to update this even by the 365 administrator:<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Powershell to resolve this:<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">\"Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell\"<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">$cred = Get-Credential<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">$session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ps.outlook.com\/powershell\">https:\/\/ps.outlook.com\/powershell<\/a> -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">$importresults = Import-PSSession $session<\/pre>\n<pre lang=\"powershell\">Set-DistributionGroup -Identity \"DG_Name_or_Alias\" -ManagedBy &lt;<a href=\"mailto:user@domain.com\">user@domain.com<\/a>&gt;-BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck<\/pre>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> you do <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span> need the &gt; and &lt; symbols and the alias does not need to include the domain name. If you do not receive an error in red text then the process is complete. There is no visual confirmation message once complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some migrations of\u00a0Microsoft Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) to Office 365 would result in the owner of &#8220;Distribution Groups&#8221; being blank with no access to update this even by the 365 administrator: Here&#8217;s the Powershell to resolve this: &#8220;Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell&#8221; Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted $cred = Get-Credential $session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-services","category-office-365"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOPt8-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardsd.co.uk\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}