Office 365 Group used as an Email Distribution List or a Shared Calendar in Outlook 

ARTICLE SUMMARY

This article outlines how to allow an Office 365 group to be used as an email distribution list or a shared calendar that shows up in Outlook.

When turning an office 365 group into a useable distribution list or shared calendar that shows up in both Outlook for the web AND the Outlook desktop app you need to do 2 things:

• Unhide the group from the GAL
• Make the group visible to Outlook clients

Both can be accomplished from Exchange online powershell.

Connect to Exchange online via powershell

Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName theaccountyouwantouse

Then run the unhide command

Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity GroupName -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled:$false

(change GroupName to the one you want, I usually use the entire email so there is not mistakes with spaces or special characters)

Then run the command to make the group visible to Outlook clients

Set-UnifiedGroup GroupName -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$false

It shouldn't take to long for either change to be visible, you might have to log out of your client and back in to see the changes.