This week, while working with one of my peers, a request came in to bulk convert all Office 365 groups to Microsoft Teams. In the Teams UI, you’re only presented the choice to upgrade groups you own, one at a time, to Teams.… [ Continue reading ]
SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business Custom Sharing Controls
Today, we’re going to explore two relatively new sharing controls in SharePoint Online (and, by extension, OneDrive for Business). The two options we’re going to look at are located inside the SharePoint Admin Center (https://<tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com) under Sharing:

Fixing Office 365 Anonymous Group Write-back and External Delivery
Yes, Hell has frozen over. The cows have come home. The lady of size has sung.
I have come up with a “best case” (ok, maybe “better case”) solution for the Office Microsoft 365 hybrid group write-back problem.
Background
For the long(er) background, you’ll probably want to go see this post.… [ Continue reading ]
Office 365 Groups and Anonymous External Senders
I have created a more detailed example of how to do this here: https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com/2018/09/14/fixing-office-365-anonymous-group-write-back-and-external-delivery/
Office 365 Groups are glorious creations. There are, however, some instances where they don’t work as you anticipate (or hope). One of those scenarios is when you are configured in hybrid coexistence with the following scenario:
- Office 365 Group Writeback is enabled (for configuring permissions, see this script)
- RequireSenderAuthenticationEnabled is set to False for an Office 365 group
- Your organization’s MX record is configured to point on-premises
In this scenario, external emails sent to Office 365 groups (via your organization’s MX record pointing on-premises) will be returned with one of our favorite NDRs:
“You do not have permission to send to this recipient.”… [ Continue reading ]
Backup and Restore Office 365 Groups
While working with a partner this weekend on a tenant to tenant migration, we had the need to migrate Office 365 groups. There’s not really a lot of information around on recreating groups and memberships, so I decided to put together a tool to help the effort.… [ Continue reading ]
Disable Office 365 Groups Creation: Redux
Update: I posted roll-back steps at the bottom of the article.
Several months ago, I wrote a blog on Disabling Office 365 Groups. It seems as though we couldn’t leave well enough alone. Such is a price of progress.
I got a new laptop a few weeks ago, and then found myself in the position of helping out a few colleagues this week. … [ Continue reading ]
Disable Office 365 Groups Creation
Update: There are new cmdlets available for this task. This blog is for historical reference only. A new, updated process is available here (https://bhr.62e.myftpupload.com/2017/04/29/disable-office-365-groups-creation-redux/).
Office 365 Groups are a (somewhat) new feature that act both like a distribution list and a public folder or shared mailbox. … [ Continue reading ]
