Turning off email notifications for Office 365 Groups

We need to start using "unified groups" in Office 365/Azure AD for an intranet project that uses Azure AD as the identitiy provider. We want communication to stay in the platform, and what we don't w...

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ChristianBergstrom

Silver Contributor

Jul 02, 2020

rpdodds Hello, there are several options to choose from when using the Set-UnifiedGroup cmdlet.

For example.

-UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled

-HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled

-HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled

-AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents

-AutoSubscribeNewMembers

See this for details about the switches

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps

rpdodds

Copper Contributor

Jul 03, 2020

ChristianBergstrom Thanks!

So if I use:

Set-UnifiedGroup "New O365 Group for Intranet" -AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents:$false -AutoSubscribeNewMembers:$false  -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled:$true  -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled -ModerationEnabled:$true -ModeratedBy:poweruser1@domain.com,poweruser2@domain.com,poweruser3@domain.com -SubscriptionEnabled:$false -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false

I'm effectively turning off ALL notification emails to members personal inboxes, hiding it from Outlook/OWA, hiding it from address book/people searches, and setting it so emails to the group or calendar events created in the group have to be approved by powerusers 1, 2 or 3. Is that right?

If I'm going to create 30 odd new groups, should I create the groups first, then run this command and add members last?

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