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Reputation: 114

Check if each o365 group in a list is hidden from GAL

I have a list of office 365 groups. I want to check if they are hidden from Global Address List. For some reason when I run foreach loop there is no output at all. Could you, please point out what I am doing wrong.

Here's how I connected to Exchange:

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

This is what I've tried to do:

#get list of o365 groups
$teams  = Get-UnifiedGroup |Where-Object {$_.WelcomeMessageEnabled -like "False"}|select -ExpandProperty Alias

#check $teams type just to be on the safe side
$teams.gettype()

IsPublic IsSerial Name                                     BaseType
-------- -------- ----                                     --------
True     True     Object[]                                 System.Array

#check content of $teams variable

$teams
AllEMEA
AmericasApps
AmericasAR
AmericasConnectivity
AnalystTeam
APACExtendedServices
APACGatewayMigration
APACMarketGateways
APACProfessionalServices
APACSales

When I manually check groups one by one, it works just fine.

Get-UnifiedGroup -Filter {Alias -eq "AllEMEA"} | select DisplayName,hiddenfromaddresslistsenabled

DisplayName HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled
----------- -----------------------------
All EMEA                            False

But when i pipe $teams to foreach loop it hangs for a moment like it processes the array but then, there is no output at all.

>$teams | %{Get-UnifiedGroup -Filter {Alias -eq $_}} | select DisplayName,hiddenfromaddresslistsenabled
>

#I've tried this approach (which is as far as i know the same), but result is the same
>foreach ($team in $teams) {Get-UnifiedGroup -Filter {Alias -eq "$team"}} | select DisplayName,hiddenfromaddresslistsenabled
>

I want to see a list of groups and their hiddenfromaddresslistsenabled property. Any help appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3461

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 114

The problem here is -Filter parameter does not accept pipeline input.

    Filter <string>
    Required?                    true
    Position?                    Named
    Accept pipeline input?       false
    Parameter set name           Filter
    Aliases                      None
    Dynamic?                     true

I see the same behavior with Get-aduser -Filter,for example, so the workaround here is to not use -Filter but use -Identity parameter which accepts pipeline input. The @Nevenka's answer works as well, but I wanted to post the root cause for this problem, if anyone will encounter the same problem.

Upvotes: 0

Nevenka Kirovska
Nevenka Kirovska

Reputation: 11

Can you check the following code below?

$teams = Get-UnifiedGroup | Where {($_.HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled -eq $True) -and ($_.WelcomeMessageEnabled -like $false)} | ft Name, Alias, HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled, WelcomeMessageEnabled
$teams.gettype() <# if you need to check the type #>
$teams

Upvotes: 1

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