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Distribution List Creation

Create a mail-enabled Microsoft 365 group and seed its members from Slack or Teams, approval-gated and fully audited.

Integrates with

M365Entra ID

The problem

New teams and projects routinely need a mailing list. The operation is routine and reversible, yet it still tends to route through IT and sit in a queue.

What AscendCore does

A requester names the list and the starting members in Slack or Teams. AscendCore confirms the name is free, proposes the list to an approver, and on approval creates a Microsoft 365 group (the modern mail-enabled list) and seeds the members. The name is re-checked at execution, so a same-named group refuses creation rather than making a twin, and each member seeds independently: one bad address never loses the group or the other members. Creation and the per-member outcomes are recorded in the audit chain.

Status

Live in production. Creates mail-enabled Microsoft 365 groups against a real tenant today from Slack and Teams, with an execute-time name re-check and member seeding that retries through directory replication, all recorded in the audit chain. Naming conventions and approver routing are configurable per customer.

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Versioned, deterministic, auditable

Every runbook is defined as a versioned YAML manifest with explicit triggers, steps, and approval policies. The runbook itself is the audit-ready record of what AscendCore can and will do. Chat is just the interface that triggers it.

name: distribution-list-creation
trigger:
  channels: [slack, teams]
  commands: [dl-create]
steps:
  - validate_name_available     # re-checked at execute time
  - admin_approval
  - create_unified_group        # mail-enabled M365 group
  - seed_initial_members        # per-member, one bad address never loses the group
approval:
  required: true
  approvers: [it-admins]
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Run distribution list creation from Teams or Slack today

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