Student can see private group

[ozydave]

Morning All

 

I have disabled all staff and students from creating groups.

I then created a few private groups and assigned a staff member as the owner. I also added staff as members of the relevant group.

Students have a separate GAL, if it makes any difference.

 

Helping a student this morning get logged into office 365. I went to mail I could see under groups one of the private groups I had created.

I could click on it, although I couldn’t see any of the content of the group I could see the staff members names and email address of the group I could ask to join and see the email address of the group.

 

I would like to stop the group being viewed in the first place. The other groups I created do not visible.

 

I have checked this group against the other I have created and can see no difference.

I can see no difference between this student and any other student in regards the policies applied.

 

Any pointers?

[TechMonkey]

If it is just a mail group you would have to use PowerShell to set the group hidden from address books. As far as I am aware this is an all or nothing setting, so hidden for everybody or nobody.

C:\> Set-MailContact -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

[ozydave]

Cheers, I'll a look at that. Its one of the groups that has its own file repository, oneNote, etc

[speckytecky]

I had similar issues and logged a case with O365 support through the Admin Portal and they responded very quickly running a remote session with me steering me through the Powershell steps to sort it. Ten out of ten for their support.

[ozydave]

ditto their support, have been very good for me so far. Thought id try the brains at Edugeek first :-)

[NicholasEsping]

Here is how you can hide a group using powershell:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential

$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $UserCredential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirectionImport-PSSession $Session

Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity [email protected] -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

 

The only problem I have with this is it also hides the group from staff members unless they are a member of the group. So if someone is trying to join the group they will need to be added by the owner of the group.

Edited November 10, 2016 by NicholasEsping

[ozydave]

I take it back re Microsoft support.

80 minutes on the phone and no further forward. Couldn't get across to the guy that I have 6 private groups and this student can see one of them.

 

Another student we tried cannot see any groups, although they could search form them. Even searching and clicking on the group they could not see the members of that group.

 

But the user with the problem can only see this one group and see the members of it, staff email addresses. They cannot search for groups.

 

Thanks though I have now hidden from address list.

 

Cheers