Forum Discussion
Manage automatic creation of direct reports group
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
Pointless at best, positively disruptive at worst given we still don't have much in the way of tools for managing Groups in the first place. I can think of several things I'd prefer they spent the development time on doing or finishing:-
- Group Soft Delete
- Central IT access to All groups
- Delve Search of private groups
- Dynamic groups for all (not just AAD Premium)
- Some way of navigating from groups to a central site
- Better options for branding
- Full set of SharePoint framework parts
I like Groups but please finish what you have before adding new stuff.
Microsoft1- Coming very soon
2- Please explain, IT can already manage all groups centrally
3- Still working on this
4- good feedback for your MSFT account rep
5- please explain? we are working on a unified groups card across apps.
6-7 good feeback for my SP colleagues
Chris,
2. Refers to that fact that by default only group owners and members of a private group can even see the content, making it difficult to judge if people are using them. You can add yourself as an owner but it takes time to take effect. No part of a computer system should be locked out to the people managing it. Having them not searchable and unrecoverable only adds to them problem.
5. Refers to the fact that Microsoft are pushing groups all the time time but the UI is disjointed to the users. How does someone navigate from a group to a central intranet site etc?
Mike
- I normally don't mind things being auto opted-in but I believe this is one of the features that you should start with turned off and allow opt-in. I can see the advantage of the feature but I don't know anyone who has ManagedBy setup 100% properly, especially at large enterprises.
I still haven't quite got my head wrapped around why aren't new features turned off by default and then enabled by admins after they've had time to craft the appropriate communications plan. If that's too tricky why not be able to set your tenant so that new features are either enabled or disabled by default? Why is new functionality being forced?
I agree. I'd really like to have a master switch in our tenant where I can set it so new features like this are off by default. We're a large organization and constantly turning things off is tiresome. We need to control the deployment to our organization -- smoother roll outs will not only make us look better but also Microsoft as well!
We will disable this as well. Case would have been differrent if membership would have been dynamic like the team calendar list in Outlook.
I saw this first thing this morning after I logged in and couldn't believe that this was to be automatically setup. Then I saw I could disable it. I immediately did. Fortunately no groups were created.
I then thought how if I had been on vacation for a couple weeks and these Groups started showing up without warning how my users would have reacted. It would not have been a positive reaction.
Things like this need to be Opt-In NOT Opt-Out.
- Hi Christophe, Having read the support page carefully one issue is a standout for me and not for the first time. There is an ongoing assumption that providing access via PowerShell is sufficient to control administration of Groups. With entry level features such as Direct Reports require a full UX because it cannot be the case that all admins are PowerShell capable (nor would. I wish them to be) but this immediately places an overhead on staff who are capable whose workload, capabilities and cost is high. I've mentioned this too over Classification of sites. I'm sure th intention is to provide this functionality over time through the UX but please consider more admin fundamentals ahead of release. Thank you.
