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Add Office365 Group Member without Email Notification
Hey Tammy Emond,
I think I should be able to help you out!
There is not a way to my knowledge to do this in outlook or the O365 GUI, but there is a way to do this in Powershell.In Powershell O365 groups use the commands that are around "unified groups," which was an old name for what became O365 Groups. There is an attribute in there that is called a welcome message.
So for each group you wanted to do this on, you would need to run the following in Exchange Online Powershell.
Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled $false
To turn it back on, just pass the same command with $true
Adam
Tammy Emond my boss found that if you create a Team, it creates an email group. If you add people to that created email group, it will add them to the team without sending them an email
Yes it is working, (without Powershell)petersonhd your boos is a genius:)
1) Create a new Team (in Teams) - by creation of the Team: link it with the existing mail Group.
2) Add members to the Team, it will be immediately visible in the mail Group without any e-mails.
- To fix it now you need to run the follow:
set-UnifiedGroup -identity <group-email> -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$false
eg:
set-UnifiedGroup -identity email address removed for privacy reasons -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$false
*You need to have the group created without users and run the command as above after getting connected to ExchangeOnline through PowerShell.
- This was all I needed for my purpose - thanks so much!
petersonhd, can you elaborate on this process? I need to bulk add people before sending out an email communication, and PowerShell isn't an option.
dhawley If I remember correctly, after you create the team it makes a group in 365. From the admin center, go to Groups then active groups. If you search for the team name, you should find it and the group type will be Microsoft 365. Click on the group and add members. This will add them to the team and our users didn't get an email about it.
petersonhd, so I would need to be a tenant admin? I tried finding and accessing admin portal URL for my tenant, but to no avail.
