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Manage automatic creation of direct reports group
Please let me know what you think: "Beginning in March 2017, managers who have 2-20 direct reports, do not already have a direct reports group, and have permissions to create groups in O...
THANK YOU all for your feedback, please see an update in this new thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Update-Auto-creation-of-Direct-Reports-group-in-Outlook-MC96611/m-p/55318#M2740
cfiessinger I've read that article several times (before I posted) and it doesn't answer my questions.
Unless you're saying it does actually answer my questions, in which case the wording is unclear because I'm not seeing the answers.
cfiessinger
Microsoft
Microsoftgreat feedback on how our documentation can improve (note you can provide feedback directly at the very bottom of each article).
cfiessinger a few other thoughts...
What cycle will this auto-creation run on? If I set up direct reports for someone, does the Group appear immediately (or within a few minutes), after an hour, after a day?
Will the auto-created groups comply with group naming policies already in place? If not, can we apply a separate naming policy to auto-created groups?
- cfiessingergreat questions, updating our docs as I write...
- Why are features like this that have such a massive impact on an environment, especially an extensive one (who, really, has their managedBy up to date?) being rolled out as opt-out? So many tenants are going to be littered with messy Groups as a result of this, I really struggle to imagine what went on in a meeting room to decide this was a good idea.
- Totally agree with Chris comment, this new feature if not properly communicated (I think in this case the message center is not enough) can drive into scenarios where Groups are going to be totally unmaneagable
I can see (I think) how this can be helpful in some cases and I can also appreciate the fact that we are given controls for this feature. And the advance communication, although as others have pointed out, the record proves that Message center entries are often overlooked, and with this regard a "default enabled" approach might/will have unwanted consequences. This is not the first example of such feature and Microsoft seems to be getting more and more agressive with them, which is definitely not a good thing.
I also agree that we need to know some more details before we can make a decision whether we want to use a feature like this. I'm also willing to bet few bucks that in order to start using this feature, some companies would need more control over it than just the "on/off" switch.
