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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
Actually it won't create a new group if any group (auto-created or manually-created) already exists for that manager and their direct reports.
How's that going to work? If Jane and Dianne and Michelle (who's an external user) report to Joanna, and Joanna has a group called "the fully sick party squad" with Jane and Dianne and Michelle in it; will there be some magical method of deduction that determine's that it's aligned with the groups that would otherwise be automatically created?