unable to add owner

Question

Hi All

I am using Exchange 2016 hybrid environment. i have a Distribution List created in onprem. I want to add couple of owners to it. i am getting below error When i try to add them from GUI. how can i add the owners from PowerShell please guide me.

Answer 1

Hi @Roger Roger ,

Good day, welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform!

Based on your description, the issue occurs if you're not a manager of the group. Even a user with global administrator can’t remove or make a change to a distribution group. The fact that you are not the distribution group owner could stop you from completing the required management task as my test in screenshot below.

To fix the permission issue, you can add the -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck parameter to the PowerShell command as my test below. Then you could add the owner to Distribution List successfully. And you can add multiple owners after ManagedBy.

Set-DistributionGroup -Identity "xxxxx" -ManagedBy "xxxx" -BypassSecurityGroupManagerCheck

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