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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
Can someone please explain what will happen for a automated group where the manager leave the company, also whant will happen when a replacement of the manager is assigned with the direct reports.
Thanks in advance.
Carlos Gomez wrote:Can someone please explain what will happen for a automated group where the manager leave the company, also whant will happen when a replacement of the manager is assigned with the direct reports.
Thanks in advance.
It's answered earlier in the thread, but the thread is getting long and fragmented.
Basically, it will be a manual process (rename/re-assign existing group, or create new group and move members to new group), from what I've understood of the replies from Microsoft so far.
Thanks Paul Cunningham,
I'll take a note on this, but would be nice if Microsoft updates their documentation to add this case scenario at least for the ones that do not read this thread.
Regards.
- David Rosenthal
Microsoft
Had a good discussion with cfiessinger and BenSchorr on documentation on Twitter, if you can call 140 characters a discussion. They clarified a lot for me, and made some updates to the documentation already as a result of our conversation. Give it a look: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-automatic-creation-of-direct-reports-group-Admin-help-8387f129-19cc-4426-9911-e36fa0a01043?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
I've read it multiple times. The first paragraph says it quite well. Managers with 2-20 direct reports will get a group if they don't have one.
An assesment tool to see the actual impact would be good. And how do you determine if a manager already have a direct reports group? cc/ cfiessinger
And the non-dynamic part doesn't make sense for a direct reports scenario imo, which is very rule based ar the start.
And, the idea might be a good one, but I think opt-in would be the way. Send an e-mail to all applicable managers, asking if they want O365 to set this up for them.
We're currently creating a lot of groups for dept/divisions for a customer. How do we know if these trump the auto ones? Unless we just opt-out.
- David Rosenthal
Unrelated to the main topic, but equally important to many of us. jeffmedford the way replies and threading work in here is making very active posts like this very difficult to follow. I'm left scrolling through the entire thing to find the new replies, and other than the time they were posted it is very hard to pick them out from the crowd. Maybe a known thing you're working on, but wanted to give the feedback and a real life example.
