Create Email Distribution Groups

G-Suite (Google)

1. Log in to admin.google.com with an admin account
2. On the left hand side click on the menu button
3. Next click Directory and Groups
   
   
   
   
4. Next click “create group”
   
   
   
   
5. Fill out the information
   Ex. 

1. ****VERY IMPORTANT**** When setting permissions, ensure that the “Publish Posts” setting has “External” checked. Otherwise, you won’t be able to receive emails from outside your domain.
   
2. All other settings below that are at your discretion 
3. Then click “Create Group”

Office365

1. Log in to admin.microsoft.com with an admin account
2. First we’re going to create a Contact for the RevStar DevOps email. Click on “Contacts” under the Users section and click “Add a contact”
   
   
3. Fill in the below information
   First Name: RevStar
   Last Name: DevOps
   Email: devops@revstarconsulting.com
   
   
   
4. On the left-hand side click on Teams & groups
   
   
5. Next click Active teams & groups
   
   
6. Next click Distribution List Tab
   
   
   
   
7. Next click Add a group
   
   
8. On the Choose a group type click Distribution and then Next
   
   
9. Name the group
   Ex. AWS Management
   
   
10. Add internal client owners to the account
    
    
11. Next, add users whom you would like to receive emails that are shared by the cloud provider. Please also add the RevStar DevOps user that we created earlier and click next
    
    
12. Now we create the email address. Nomenclature that we follow is cloudprovider.environment@clientname.com  Ex. aws.mgmt@clientname.com
    ****VERY IMPORTANT**** Make sure you check the box next to “Allow people outside of my organization to send email to this Distribution group”
    
    
13. Click Next and then Create Group