The MyDistributionGroups management role enables individual users to create, modify, and view distribution groups, and to modify, view, remove, and add members to distribution groups they own.
Default management role assignments
This role has role assignments to one or more role assignees. The following table indicates whether the role assignment is regular or delegating, and also indicates the management scopes applied to each assignment. The following list describes each column:
Regular assignment: Regular role assignments enable the role assignee to access the permissions provided by the management role entries on this role.
Delegating assignment: Delegating role assignments give the role assignee the ability to assign this role to role groups, users, or USGs.
Recipient read scope: The recipient read scope determines what recipient objects the role assignee is allowed to read from Active Directory.
Recipient write scope: The recipient write scope determines what recipient objects the role assignee is allowed to modify in Active Directory.
Configuration read scope: The configuration read scope determines what configuration and server objects the role assignee is allowed to read from Active Directory.
Configuration write scope: The configuration write scope determines what organizational and server objects the role assignee is allowed to modify in Active Directory.
This module provides instruction on how to create groups for distributing email to multiple users within Exchange Online. It also explains how to create groups to support collaboration in SharePoint Online.