Mastering Microsoft 365 Groups with PowerShell
As an administrator, managing Microsoft 365 Groups can be a crucial task to ensure smooth collaboration and information sharing within your organization. PowerShell provides a powerful tool to streamline these management tasks, and this comprehensive guide will walk you through the essential steps.
Link to Your Microsoft 365 Groups Usage Guidelines
When users create or edit a group in Outlook, you can provide them with a direct link to your organization’s usage guidelines. This is particularly useful if you have specific requirements, such as using a certain prefix or suffix for group names.
To achieve this, leverage the Microsoft Graph PowerShell to point your users to the relevant guidelines. Follow the steps in the Microsoft Entra cmdlets for configuring group settings under the “Create settings at the directory level” section to define the usage guideline hyperlink. After running the Microsoft Entra cmdlet, your users will see the link to your guidelines when creating or editing a group in Outlook.
![Create a new group with usage guidelines link.][]![Click Group usage guidelines to see your organization’s Microsoft 365 groups guidelines.][]
Allow Users to Send as the Microsoft 365 Group
If you want to enable your Microsoft 365 groups with Send As permissions, use the Add-RecipientPermission and Get-RecipientPermission cmdlets. After configuring the permissions, Microsoft 365 group users can use Outlook or Outlook on the web to send and reply to email as the Microsoft 365 group.
Replace <GroupAlias>
with the alias of the group you want to update, and <UserAlias>
with the alias of the user you want to grant permissions to. Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell and then run the following commands:```PowerShell
$groupAlias = “”
$userAlias = “”
$groupsRecipientDetails = Get-Recipient -RecipientTypeDetails GroupMailbox -Identity $groupAlias
Add-RecipientPermission -Identity $groupsRecipientDetails.Name -Trustee $userAlias -AccessRights SendAs
After running these commands, users can go to Outlook or Outlook on the web and send emails as the group by adding the group's email address to the **From** field.
## Create Classifications for Microsoft 365 Groups
You can create sensitivity labels that users can set when creating a Microsoft 365 Group. This is the recommended approach instead of the previous groups classification feature. To learn more about using sensitivity labels, see [Protect content in Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 groups, and SharePoint sites](https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/compliance/sensitivity-labels-teams-groups-sites).
If you still want to use the previous groups classification feature, you can create classifications that users can set when creating a Microsoft 365 Group, such as **Standard**, **Secret**, and **Top Secret**. Use Microsoft Graph PowerShell to define the classifications and their descriptions.```powershell
$setting["ClassificationList"] = "Low Impact, Medium Impact, High Impact"
$setting[