Find All Office 365 Group Owners using PowerShell
Requirement: Get Office 365 Group Owners
How to Get Office 365 Group Owners?
To get Office 365 group owners from Microsoft 365 admin center,
- Log in to the Microsoft 365 Admin Center site: https://admin.microsoft.com
- Expand Groups and Click on the Groups link in the left navigation.
- The group’s page lists all groups in your Office 365 tenant. Pick the desired group to list the owners of the group.
- This opens the group’s details page which lists group Owners
Get Office 365 Group Owners using PowerShell:
The script connects to Exchange Online and gets group owners of a given Office 365 group “[email protected]”.
#Get Credentials to connect
$Credential = Get-Credential
#Create the session
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ `
-Credential $Credential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
#Import the session
Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking | Out-Null
#Get Owners of a Office 365 Group
Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity "[email protected]" | Get-UnifiedGroupLinks -LinkType Owner | Select DisplayName, PrimarySmtpAddress
#Remove the session
Remove-PSSession $Session
Find All Office 365 Group Owners using PowerShell:
To get owners of all Office 365 groups and export to CSV, use:
#Get Credentials to connect
$Credential = Get-Credential
#Create the session
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ `
-Credential $Credential -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
#Import the session
Import-PSSession $Session -DisableNameChecking | Out-Null
#Get All Office 365 Groups
$GroupData = @()
$Groups = Get-UnifiedGroup -ResultSize Unlimited -SortBy Name
#Loop through each Group
$Groups | Foreach-Object {
#Get Group Owners
$GroupOwners = Get-UnifiedGroupLinks -LinkType Owners -Identity $_.Id | Select DisplayName, PrimarySmtpAddress
$GroupData += New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
GroupName = $_.Alias
GroupEmail = $_.PrimarySmtpAddress
OwnerName = $GroupOwners.DisplayName -join "; "
OwnerIDs = $GroupOwners.PrimarySmtpAddress -join "; "
}
}
#Get Groups Data
$GroupData
$GroupData | Export-Csv "C:\Temp\GroupOwners.csv" -NoTypeInformation
#Remove the session
Remove-PSSession $Session
Find Owners of an Office 365 Group using Azure AD PowerShell:
Make sure you have “Azure AD” PowerShell Module installed before running this script!
#Connect to AzureAD
Connect-AzureAD -Credential (Get-Credential) | Out-Null
#Get Group Owners
Get-AzureADGroupOwner -ObjectId (Get-AzureADGroup -SearchString "Purchase").ObjectId
PowerShell to Generate Group Owners Report from Azure AD
#Get Credentials to connect
$Cred = Get-Credential
#Connect to AzureAD
Connect-AzureAD -Credential $Cred | Out-Null
$GroupData = @()
#Get all Office 365 Groups
Get-AzureADMSGroup -Filter "groupTypes/any(c:c eq 'Unified')" -All:$true | ForEach-object {
$GroupName = $_.DisplayName
#Get Owners
$GroupOwners = Get-AzureADGroupOwner -ObjectId $_.ID | Select UserPrincipalName, DisplayName
$GroupData += New-Object PSObject -Property ([Ordered]@{
GroupName = $GroupName
OwnerID = $GroupOwners.UserPrincipalName -join "; "
OwnerName = $GroupOwners.DisplayName -join "; "
})
}
#Export Group Owners data to CSV
$GroupData
$GroupData | Export-Csv "C:\Temp\GroupOwners.csv" -NoTypeInformation
Script Output:
