Azure AD Distribution Lists

[AntonioMoran]

Hi all,

we are trying to implement Self-Service capabilities to fully manage Azure AD Distribution Lists.

As we all know, Microsoft has removed the possibility of managing them via REST API, so, it is required to use the Powershell connector in order to do the management.

We have been able to implement successfully the group membership within the Azure AD Connector itself, where, depending on the group type, we let the AAD Connector to run the group membership or we call the Powershell connector when we detect a Distribution List. This is working fine without any issues.

But, what we haven't been able to achieve is how to implement the creation of new Distribution List, the removal of existing ones, or the ownership management of these Distribution Lists.

Has someone been able to implement these use cases? If so, what has been the approach?. We have some ideas in mind, but are very rudimentary, running some powershell scripts to "fake" some product behaviors... But we want to avoid this path as we'd like to run these features within the product itself.

Any hints or ideas will be very appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance.

[adarshk]

Saviynt OOTB only allows us to mange group memberships using WIN PS Connector to call Powershell Scripts.

You can try exploring REST connector to achieve this. 

Thanks,
Adarsh Kulkarni

[AntonioMoran]

Hi Adarsh,

since long time ago Microsoft removed the possibility to manage these type of distribution lists using REST. Find below the link with more info for your reference: 

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365/graph-api-query-for-distribution-list-group-cre...

[AntonioMoran]

Hi again,

any comments about this? Have anyone managed to make Saviynt work with pure Azure Cloud Distribution Lists? (not only Add/remove users but also DL creation/update/removal + owner management).

Thanks a lot