Forum Discussion
Manage automatic creation of direct reports group
- 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
First of all, Kudos is deserved cfiessinger for making this change known via the message center in a timely manner, and making sure people know how to opt-out. And while some of you have pointed out that not all admins read the message center, Microsoft is in a tough spot finding a way to effectively communicate to everyone (if you have figured out how to do it in your company, please share!).
I also assume the logic behind this change is to drive adoption. Again, I can see the logic behind those thoughts since we also struggle with getting our internal users to understand all of the tools available in O365. If you can lead them to water by creating Groups for them, then perhaps they'll take a drink (and drive adoption which is probably how the PG gets compensated$)
But we'll be turning this auto-creation off. Too many things that can go wrong with this that outweigh the possible rewards. And from a bigger picture, this is so close timewise to the launch of Teams where people in our company are already asking if we should create a Team from every Team/Group.