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Managing Office 365 Group Lists

Overview:

Office 365 Group list instructions for adding and removing members from the Outlook client and Web Outlook.

Process Considerations:

The Office 365 Group has been created and you are the owner of the group list.
Group owners can remove any list member. A list member can remove themselves by unsubscribing or leaving the list.

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Instructions for Adding group list members in the Outlook client application

Open Outlook for Windows.
Under Groups in the left folder pane, select your group.
On the ribbon click Group Settings, select Add Members.
In the Add Members box, search for people within your organization either by their full name or email address, and then select the names to add. If you are adding an external member type their email address and select the name when it appears to add it to the list.
Click OK.

Removing group list members in the Outlook client application

Note - Group owners can remove any list member. A list member can remove themselves by unsubscribing or leaving the list.

Under Groups in the left folder pane, select your group.
On the ribbon click Group Settings, select Edit Group.
In the Edit Group box, point to the name of the member you want to remove, and click the red X.

Adding group list members in the Outlook Web

1. Sign into Office.com

2.Under Groups in the left folder pane, select your group.

Office.com groups

3. In the middle pane select the 3 ellipsis ... and click Settings

settings link

4. a menu will appear, select Edit group.

group settings

5. A box will appear at the top select members.

edit groups

6. Click add members.

add members link

7. Enter the name or email address of the person within the organization you want to add or type the email address of an external person. Click enter when done.

edit group email address