Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

The first command will retrieve all the non-universal mail-enabled distribution groups in your organization and pipe the results to the Set-Group cmdlet which will convert them using the -Universal switch parameter. It may not be a big deal to modify a handful of groups, but if you have hundreds of mail-enabled non-universal groups the command in the previous example can save you a lot of time.

If you have a large number of groups to convert, you may find that some of them are members of another global group and cannot be converted. Keep in mind that a universal group cannot be a member of a global group. If you run into errors because of this, you can convert these groups individually using the Set-Group cmdlet. Then you ...