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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 ...
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Ravin Sachdeva
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Dec 12, 2016

Juan, this change was introduced to a small set of users for testing and we typically do not announce such changes.

 

We are doing a lot to improve on the group email subscriptions in Inbox in the next few months based on what we have learnt. Please stay tuned. :)

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Dec 12, 2016

IMHO even this small changes should be communicated in some way...as you can see in the thread people is asking why this change cc Anne Michels

  • Brent Ellis's avatar
    Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Dec 15, 2016
    IMO this is an epidemic across Microsoft services.

    I've got two instances of this same line of thinking that brought down/disrupted business critical services for us, and required Premier Support to resolve, for what Microsoft deemed insignificant changes that did not require any communication (one regarding S4B phone system and one for AAD). Not to mention the countless subtle changes that we just live with as part of the new Microsoft world.

    Major end-user focused stuff is typically communicated well at this point in time, but all of the subtle things, and especially the back-end things are the things where we feel the most pain.
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      TonyRedmond
      MVP
      Dec 16, 2016

      I agree with Brent. Making this kind of change without flagging it is stupid. It causes disruption for tenant administrators without good cause. By all means improve functionality, but don't withdraw something without replacing it with the new and improved code. And always tell people. It's disappointing that the Groups team, which is usually pretty good at flagging changes, made a **bleep**-up here.

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    Deleted
    Dec 12, 2016

    Yes, even "small" changes can have a big impact to particular organizations.  Let's try overcommunicating for a while. 

     

    When I was administering an on premise SharePoint farm, I would thoroughly review the details of patches/updates in order to spot changes that may impact my users.  The inability to do that with SharePoint Online leads to constant frustration.

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