You are Global Admin of your tenant, is it necessary to have the Exchange Administrator Role as well to administer Exchange?

Olivier Lumeau 121 Reputation points
2023-01-27T11:59:34.7666667+00:00

Hi all,
I'm asking this question because I can manage Exchange Online but I cannot use the following commands:
Get-AddressList
New-AddessList
I receive this message:
get-addresslist : The term 'get-addresslist' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.
I use the 3.1.0 ExchangeOnlineManagement version
Now I added my account the Exchange Administratory role but nothings occures.

Thanks for you help.

Olivier

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  1. Andy David - MVP 147.9K Reputation points MVP
    2023-01-27T12:25:13.3566667+00:00

    Hi there, you need to add the Address List role to your account to manage in Exchange Online:

    [https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/get-addresslist?view=exchange-pshttps://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/get-addresslist?view=exchange-ps

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  1. Faery Fu-MSFT 18,776 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-01-30T02:13:57.7633333+00:00

    Hi @Olivier Lumeau ，

    According to the error, it seems that your account still lacks the needed permission, you can use command below to check the permission that you needed, then add your account to the related permission group in Exchange online admin center:

    1.All those commands are contained in the "Address Lists" permission group:

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    2.Log in Exchange admin center, then create a permission, then add your account and this needed permission group to this group:

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    3.Close exist PowerShell, then using your account connect to Exchange online PowerShell again.

    If you still cannot using those commands, please provide more detail information about the error that you get.

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  2. Olivier Lumeau 121 Reputation points
    2023-01-30T08:10:41.3533333+00:00

    Thank you all.

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