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How to remove the Welcome Message when a new member joins a group.
We are moving from an on-premise Exchange 2013 environment (using Hybrid) and we have to move our DLs to the cloud. I can create them through powershell as a distribution group, but that does not wr...
You can use the following command to suppress the welcome message for any new users added to the group as a member. The default value will be set to true for this parameter. So you will need to pass "false" as the value to suppress the welcome message.
Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$<true/false>
The -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false seems to have stopped working.
I tested it out on a MS Team about a month or so ago and it did not send the welcome emails. But when I did it yesterday (10/20/22) with the presumption that it would not send them, it sent them! Created quite a mess when they were supposed to be added quietly and now have to tell them to ignore it for now.
I've toggled it just to see if that might get it to work again to no avail.
I tested it out on a MS Team about a month or so ago and it did not send the welcome emails. But when I did it yesterday (10/20/22) with the presumption that it would not send them, it sent them! Created quite a mess when they were supposed to be added quietly and now have to tell them to ignore it for now.
I've toggled it just to see if that might get it to work again to no avail.
-UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false doesnt seem to work anymore.