With Office365 connected with an ADFS you have to redesgin your Exchange distribution groups. ADFS only syncs distribution groups that have these definitions:
Group scope is universal
Group type is distribution
Group members have to be users
Yes, it's not possible to have security groups or something else as distribution group members.
My idea was simple, I’m developing a script that creates for every OU and child OU I’m chosing in the ActiveDirectory structure a distribution list containing the users of the chosen OU recursively.
Since Exchange 2010 the graphical console doesn’t support the same functionality as the PowerShell Exchange console, it’s possible that there occur some exotic errors or a lack of functionality while working with the graphical console. I recommend to use only the Exchange PowerShell console for administrative work.
For example: I had to update the offline address book, I’ve deleted some distribution groups, updated the address list and the offline book, all with the graphical console. Result the address book still wasn’t up to date in the Outlook client after downloading the offline address book.
With over 350 users in the Office365 cloud as in my case it’s difficult being aware of which licenses I really need.
To help my out I’ve made an ActiveDirectory group which holds the allowed Office365 users. And with this PowerShell script I look up every Office365 user and his licenses and check if this users is allowed to use Office365.
If you’re using windows and linux/unix and your also a system administrator who likes to script. The chances are high that you’ll get this error when executing a script on a linux/unix machine that has been made on a windows machine: bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directoy
The ^M character is a windows line break, which linux/unix can’t interpret. The solution is easy, use dos2unix [filename] and everything should work fine.
On Office365 the users have to be licensed in order to get access to the Office365 application. I’ve developed a PowerShell script which add a license depending on the group membership in the ActiveDirectory.
