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How to control which users you see in the Places app
My company is looking into using the Places app. I have buildings, rooms, floors, etc, all setup. This is duplicated from what is already setup for Room Finder in Outlook. We use M365 Business Premium or M365 E5 licenses. Nobody has Teams Premium licenses at this point. Those of us testing have set our working days/hours/location in the Calendar in New Outlook and that shows up fine in Places. I can see the people I favorited and what building they are in (whether it's in New Outlook, Teams or the M365 Copilot Places app.
The issue I am having is that I see one user (who I have not favorited) listed every day and I have no idea how to remove this person from my daily Places list. Other people also see this same person in their Places list and some see a different person.
I only want to see those people I have favorited and nobody else. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this?
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There doesn't appear to be a way to control this currently. There are a whole lot of changes being released in the next week or two as part of the summer update. Maybe something around this will be included.
May consider to achieve by PowerShell:
Try using Set-PlacesSettings-AllowInConnectionsList
• Controls whether users can be added to other users' list of collaborators.
• Default is ON for all users.
• You can turn this OFF to prevent users from appearing in each other’s Places list unless explicitly favorited.Example
Set-PlacesSettings -AllowInConnectionsList $falseHi Kidd_Ip,
Thanks for the suggestion. The syntax is incorrect though. The correct syntax is:
Set-PlacesSettings -AllowInConnectionsList 'Default:false'
I have made this change and will report back if this has resolved my issue or not.
UPDATE
Running the command Set-PlacesSettings -AllowInConnectionsList 'Default:false' did not fix the issue. In fact, this prevents you from favoriting anybody.
