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Ravin Sachdeva's avatar
Ravin Sachdeva
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Sep 01, 2017

Introducing 'Follow in inbox' and other improvements for managing group emails in Outlook

The latest set of updates for Groups in Outlook introduces new ways to manage the group emails you receive in your inbox. These updates are, in large part, based on customer feedback about the Groups...
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Jared Lambe's avatar
Jared Lambe
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Dec 09, 2017

Is there a way using GUI in EAC Online or Powershell to set all users in a group to follow in inbox? This is a big problem as administrators create groups and add users but users don't get the emails because they haven't followed in inbox.

  • Ravin Sachdeva's avatar
    Ravin Sachdeva
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    Apr 06, 2018
    Hi Jared - we have recently made a change to set all members to follow a group in Inbox by default at create time. If you use Outlook Web, you should be able tp see this change when you try to create a group in Outlook. If you use Outlook on Windows, you would be able to see this change in the next couple of months.

    For existing groups, you can use the Edit Group settings and then check the box which says "set all members to follow...". Checking this box will reset all the group members to Follow in Inbox as well as change the Group's default setting to Follow when a new members is added to the Group.

    From a powershell cmdlet perspective, you can provision a new group using "Set-UnifiedGroup" with attribute -AutoSubscribeNewMembers for this on a per group.

    Does that answer your question?
    • Ivan Palikuca's avatar
      Ivan Palikuca
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 18, 2019

      Ravin Sachdeva you have mentioned "we have recently made a change to set all members to follow a group in Inbox by default at create time", where do you set this up? In our environment it is right now off and I don't know how to change behavior, I've been researching online but no luck, can you point out where is this default setting or powershell command that I need to execute?

       

      Ivan

    • chris37122's avatar
      chris37122
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      Nov 30, 2018

      One of the downsides to these groups is the admin or owner of the group cannot configure it to force following vs giving the user the choice. In some uses cases, you don't want the users to unfollow the group to miss key emails. Without this ability you cannot truly replace distribution lists as intended. Is there a way via powershell or otherwise to turn this following feature off for a group?

    • jamesamayes's avatar
      jamesamayes
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      Nov 20, 2018

      Is there a powershell command to set all users of the group to "following"?  Or something in the admin portal where this can be set?

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