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Brass Contributor

Mar 16, 2017

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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...

Office 365 Groups

cfiessinger
Mar 21, 2017
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

Chris Brown

Iron Contributor

Mar 17, 2017

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.

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Mar 17, 2017

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

VasilMichev
MVP
Mar 17, 2017
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.