“Dude, you just told me that no matter how I create this Microsoft 365 Group, I always get a group Outlook calendar and an Outlook distribution list. I am sure you are thinking the following. Why doesn’t the group show up in Outlook? You will be able to connect a Team later on if need be, though. However, if you create a Microsoft 365 Group from any place other than Teams, it will create a Group itself, plus all the other components (SharePoint Site, Outlook Group calendar, Outlook distribution list, Plan in Planner), but it will not create a Team. Creating a Microsoft 365 group from any other location If you create a new Team in Teams, it creates a Microsoft 365 Security Group, a SharePoint Site, a Distribution List in Outlook, a group calendar in Outlook, and, of course, a Microsoft Team attached to it. Creating a Microsoft 365 group from Teams You know how I told you in the paragraph above that no matter where you create the group from, the result is the same? Well, not really. There are many ways to create a Microsoft 365 Group.

No matter where you start (where you create a group from), the result is the same – you always get a Microsoft 365 Group created with all its elements. The group contains the elements outlined in the image below.Īt a minimum, you get a SharePoint site, Group Calendar (in Outlook), a distribution list (in Outlook), a Plan in Planner.

Any time you create a Team in Teams or a Team Site in SharePoint, behind the scenes, a Microsoft 365 Group is created. To understand the remainder of this article, we first need to understand the structure of a Microsoft 365 Group. So in this article, I would like to clear the confusion once and for all (hopefully) and explain to you, my loyal followers, how to configure Microsoft 365 Group email settings properly. Sometimes that group is visible in Outlook sometimes, it does not. One of the biggest mysteries and misunderstandings I find from my experience working with clients is how Microsoft 365 Group distribution list works.

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