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Lee Mayger's avatar
Lee Mayger
Brass Contributor
Dec 06, 2016

Group Email Settings have disappeared

Hi,

 

It appears that the group email settings option has disappeared. I can no longer see this in my production or personal tenants. Can anyone else confirm this please? We are about to implement groups to users outside of IT in our tenant and I need confirmation that this feature (A good one IMO) has been withdrawn.

 

Rgds

Lee

  • Hi Lee,

     

    We are currently in the process of refining our O365 Groups email subscription model, to make it even better and efficient. As a consequence, you are no longer able to see the "Group email settings" option in the dropdown, but the functionality of Unsubscribing from group emails still exists!

     

    The option is visible in the screenshot you attached, as well as the group footer that you see in Group emails in your inbox.

     

    In the next few weeks, you'll see changes to this model to make it simpler and more consistent across all Outlook end-points. Trust me, you'll want to be around when it come to your Outlook :)

     

    Please do let me know if have any other questions we can help clarify.

      • Ivan54's avatar
        Ivan54
        Bronze Contributor

        I still have the option. Does the change in the UI also change the users current per group settings for this or do they stay the same?

    • Lee Mayger's avatar
      Lee Mayger
      Brass Contributor

      Hi Ravin,

       

      I hope that you are right about me wanting to see the changes, because I used those settings a lot on the groups that I am a member of. I was aware of the unsubscribe option still being available and have no intention of using it, I just wanted to filter the conversations that are copied to my inbox.

       

      I also believe that any changes like this should be notified to the Tenant Admins, as I was made to look stupid when I added this option to our groups testing phase.

       

      Rgds

      Lee

      • Ravin Sachdeva's avatar
        Ravin Sachdeva
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        Apologies for the inconvenience caused, Lee. Moving on, we will ensure that even small yet impactful changes are messaged appropriately to you folks.

         

        Again, I'm really excited for the changes that we will be bringing into the product in the new year, and sincerely hope to continually receive valuable feedback from this forum.

         

        Thanks. 

  • I'm glad we were able to identify and explain the behavior, and I'm also sorry that you were put in an uncomfortable situation, Lee! 

     

    It is always our intention to communicate updates and changes that affect the way you use applications and services as an end user or admin. We balance this with trying not to inundate you with irrelevant information - I was surprised by the number of admins telling us to put less in the Message Center - and it appears we undercommunicated in this case. Feedback like you're providing in this discussion is tremendously helpful so that we can continue improving the notifications and refining our understanding of impact when things change.

    • Lee Mayger's avatar
      Lee Mayger
      Brass Contributor
      Hi Salvatore, Hi Salvatore, In the group conversations page, if you click on the cog in the top right hand corner you have the ability to invite others and unsubscribe from the group and some other options. Until last night you also had a group email settings feature that had four options: All, Replies and Events, Replies and None. This setting has been available since September until last night.
  • Ivan54's avatar
    Ivan54
    Bronze Contributor

    I still have them. Full tenant first release.

      • Lee Mayger's avatar
        Lee Mayger
        Brass Contributor
        Thanks Juan and Ivan. You must be luckier than me. Our production tenant only has a set of FR users, but my personal one is fully FR. Hopefully it is just a gliche and I will get them back soon.

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