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Moveworks Capabilities for Cloud-Based Distribution List Management

  • December 17, 2025
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Hi Moveworks Community,

Our organization is transitioning from managing distribution lists (DLs) in Active Directory (AD) to managing them entirely in the cloud. While we know Moveworks has native functionality for DL management in AD, we are seeking guidance on whether similar capabilities are available for cloud-based DLs or if they can be adapted to meet our needs.

Specifically, we are looking for the following capabilities for cloud-based DLs:

  1. Provide the list of owner(s) of a distribution list to a user

    • Allow users to request and receive details of the owner(s) of a specific DL.
  2. Provide the list of members of a distribution list to a user

    • Allow users to request and receive the list of members for a specific DL.
  3. Delete a distribution list

    • If the owner requests deletion, the DL should be deleted immediately.
    • If a non-owner requests deletion, the request should go to the owner(s) for approval. Once approved, the DL should be deleted.
  4. Add/Remove Members or Add Owner(s) to a distribution list

    • Owners should have the ability to add/remove members or assign additional owners to a DL.
  5. Remove Owner(s) from a distribution list

    • Owners should have the ability to remove themselves or other owners from the DL.

We’re seeking guidance on whether Moveworks currently supports these capabilities for cloud-based DLs. If not, what options are available to meet these requirements? Additionally, if any of these functionalities require additional development or configuration, we’d love to hear about the best practices or steps to achieve them.

Any insights, experiences, or recommendations from the community would be greatly appreciated as we navigate this transition!

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best answer by Kevin Mok

Based on my research, cloud-only Distribution Lists in M365 do not have an API. You would need to manage them through an Exchange Online PowerShell.

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rgeroulo
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  • December 19, 2025

Hi ​@mandarmarkandeya!

Our Access Groups documentation will outline all of the supported systems and skills available. To answer your question, the out-of-the-box Group Access skill is not compatible with cloud-based Azure group management.

With that said, using Agent Studio would be the path forward to build these use cases. If unfamiliar, Agent Studio is the developer platform where you can have full-control over the user experience and the API calls being made. All of these actions that you described are available via the Microsoft Graph API, so connecting these API into Agent Studio would be the path forward. Below are a couple example endpoints that can be used:

Let me know if you have any questions!

Best,

Ryan


Kevin Mok
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  • December 19, 2025

Hey ​@mandarmarkandeya -

We don’t currently have a built-in skill to handle the cloud-based groups, or what M365 now calls cloud-managed distribution groups.

I will say some it is a bit messy, since there are still “cloud DLs’ which are still managed by Exchange and “Entra Group” are managed by the Graph API, but the Graph API still doesn’t expose all CRUD endpoints for distribution groups.

But before we move on, I want to confirm with you which exact group type you are looking at? There are:

  • Security groups
  • Microsoft 365 groups
  • Mail-enabled Security group
  • Distribution list

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Hey ​@mandarmarkandeya -

We don’t currently have a built-in skill to handle the cloud-based groups, or what M365 now calls cloud-managed distribution groups.

I will say some it is a bit messy, since there are still “cloud DLs’ which are still managed by Exchange and “Entra Group” are managed by the Graph API, but the Graph API still doesn’t expose all CRUD endpoints for distribution groups.

But before we move on, I want to confirm with you which exact group type you are looking at? There are:

  • Security groups
  • Microsoft 365 groups
  • Mail-enabled Security group
  • Distribution list

We are looking at Distribution Lists


Kevin Mok
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  • January 20, 2026

Based on my research, cloud-only Distribution Lists in M365 do not have an API. You would need to manage them through an Exchange Online PowerShell.