Forwarding M365 Group to External Email
The trick is to use the message To box condition instead of the recipient. Otherwise it will give this error:Error executing cmdlet: |System.ArgumentException|SentTo predicate does not allow distribution groups. 'somewhere@yourdomain.com'. Exception of type 'Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PSDirectInvoke.DirectInvokeCmdletExecutionException' was thrown.
- Go to the Exchange admin center
- Go to Mail flow > Rules
- Click Add a rule > Create a new rule
- Name the rule
- Apply this rule if
The message
To box contains this person
The To box contains 'somewhere@yourdomain.com' - (optional) Click + to add more rules if needed, for example:
AndThe sender
is external/internal
The sender is located 'NotInOrganization' - Do the following
Redirect the message to
these recipients
Redirect the message to 'elsewhere@external.com' - Click Next
- Change settings as necessary
- Click Next
- Click Finish
- Click Done
- Click on the newly create rule in the Rules list
- Toggle the Enable or disable rule setting to Enabled
That's it!