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We are reading the "To" value of mails with Power Automate Desktop. Inside this value should usually be a list of mail addresses. But right now, there are some unusual values and no mail addresses. The text is attached as a screenshot and written here: "/O=EXCHANGELABS/OU=EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATIVE GROUP..."

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I am using a recent version of PAD: 2.15.284.21354

Is it maybe a setting, that we can change in Outlook?

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MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

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I’ve only seen that with contact groups or shared inboxes (multiple email accounts in a single listing) such as Ops_Team (the contact group) or Ops_Team@company.com (the shared email that hits everyone’s inbox who is in Ops_Team).

I would try to change your logic to work around this; I haven’t found a good solution.

my best guess on a reasonable solution would be:

If %Email.To% contains “needed text”, then do X.

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I think you should use the Exchange group of actions instead of the Outlook ones.

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We are using Exchange Azure and Power Automate doesn't seem to be able to access that.

Additionally, the mentioned issue only occurs with internal mail addresses not with external ones.

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Are you in Power Automate or Power Automate Desktop?

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Sorry, you said that earlier in the original post. It is a distribution group, which is why it is showing up like that. I get one similar for my team email:

I have been able to extract the "cn" number using this through "Get Subtext":
but I can't convert the cn number to an email (which is what I was trying to do with PowerShell). I think you need Active Directory in order to do so, but here is Microsoft's site that I was trying to use in order to attempt this:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/get-distributiongroup?view=exchange-ps

Best of luck!

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