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Against the official documentation we can not reference distribution list inside People or Group SharePoint field

We have office 365 tenant, and we have distribution lists >> now when we create a People or Group SharePoint column inside a custom list and we define to allow selection of user and groups as follow:-

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we are able to reference users and SharePoint Groups inside this column , but we can not reference distribution lists. although inside this official documentation @ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/list-and-library-column-types-and-options-0d8ddb7b-7dc7-414d-a283-ee9dca891df7 the People or Group field should allow us to reference distribution lists:-


Include or exclude groups of people Specify whether the list includes only individual people, or additionally includes e-mail distribution lists and SharePoint groups.

any advice?

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@johnjohn-0472,

Per my test and research, we cannot use distribution groups as securable objects in SharePoint.

Currently, we suggest you upgrade distribution lists to Microsoft 365 Groups.

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@johnjohn-0472,

I’m checking how the things are going on about this issue.

Please feel free to reply if there is any update.

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