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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 write back to our local AD (using AADConnect). So using the Unified Group commands, I can create them and they write back.
The problem is the welcome message. We are not ready for users to use the extra features of the groups, plus we have users that are a part of several hundred DLs, based on what customers they take care of.
I see the attribute WelcomeMessageEnabled, but am unable to change that to $False. I have also tried using mail rules to delete the message based on content in subject or body, but again no go.
Does anyone have any way of turning these off? This will create a huge helpdesk and support nightmare if I can not turn these off.
Thanks, Jason.
You can use the following command to suppress the welcome message for any new users added to the group as a member. The default value will be set to true for this parameter. So you will need to pass "false" as the value to suppress the welcome message.
Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$<true/false>
I'm not aware of any method to bypass the message. cfiessinger might be able to help or take some feedback on this.
Siva ShanmugamMicrosoft
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:$<true/false>
Thank you so much Siva. That worked great. This will help tremedously.
Jason
Keep in mind all of the other services tied to Office 365 Unified Groups that generate these emails as well. It should be accounted for as a part of any Governance/Provisioning strategy:
- Microsoft SharePoint (Office 365 Group-Enabled Team Sites)
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Stream
- Microsoft Power BI (Legacy work spaces)
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft Exchange
- Microsoft Yammer
- Why is this still only possible in PowerShell? We need a graph endpoint for this please.
- I had to create a mail flow rule to block these because this command listed as a solution below didn't turn anything off for my tenant unless someone can tell me it takes 24hrs for the command to work.
Hello Everyone,
I hope you all are safe and doing good.
"Set-UnifiedGroup "MyGropuName" -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false"
This command will disable the welcome message for the members of the group but when the emails are sent to this group the mail will be lying under the "Distribution Group" in Outlook.
Until the users click on Follow Mailbox, the mails will not flow to Inbox of the user.
Is there any way to change it ? So that when the email is sent to this group the mails are directly routed to Inbox of the users mailbox ?
Regards,
Manoj
I just found this thread because the same thing just happened to me. I created a dynamic group in Azure this morning containing all employees -- for ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES -- and a few hours later it emailed friggin' all 1850 group members about it. I can't for the life of me understand why Microsoft would think this is a smart thing to do. I could see if this were a group created by a standard user who added a few of their colleagues to it, but when a system admin goes in and creates a group like this...DON'T EMAIL EVERYONE!!
Jason Hopp, is there a way to disable this property through Graph API?
- The setting appears to have changed to -WelcomeMessageEnabled in our tenant anyway.
- The -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false seems to have stopped working.
I tested it out on a MS Team about a month or so ago and it did not send the welcome emails. But when I did it yesterday (10/20/22) with the presumption that it would not send them, it sent them! Created quite a mess when they were supposed to be added quietly and now have to tell them to ignore it for now.
I've toggled it just to see if that might get it to work again to no avail.- -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false doesnt seem to work anymore.
- I tried it today, and it worked well. The user didn't get the notification.
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Hello World" -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
