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Microsoft's crusade to move tenants from Email DLs to Office 365 Groups
I think the whole way the Microsoft crams new features (Groups, Clutter, Focussed Inbox, Teams, etc.) down our throats is really out of line for a service that we pay for. If they want to do that inhouse at Microsoft, more power to them, but in my tenant our IT group is in charge and determines what our users need for solving their business processes. Afterall we know our users, not Microsoft.
Microsoft should be more soft handed. They should say "here's this great feature, here's how to turn it on." The new feature should sell itself on it's own merrits, not by being forced upon the tenants.
Ultimately what ends up happening is I have to go around and find out how to turn off every new feature that is forced upon our tenant. Why should I have to waste my time doing that?
I agree Cary. Change management in our organization requires planning, preparation and training.
The "instant on" way new features are released in Office 365 makes this a challenge for admins.
Case in point:
Right now we are awaiting the arrival of the new Microsoft Stream icon in the app launcher so we know we can go in and disable it across all users in our tenant. When we are ready for the change from Office 365 Video then we can roll it out.
I'd much prefer to me notified as an admin that its now available with details of how to enable it for all users across the tenant.
I know it was only an example but are there "Microsoft Stream for O365" licences showing up in your tenant yet? These could then be removed in advance, so the icon won't appear for everyone, allowing only select users to try Steam when activated?
I agree change management isn't to be underestimated and it does have it's difficulties, it one of the reasons that motivated me to put this https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/37821.office-365-change-management-survival-guide.aspx together.
- Not yet, but we have the disable script ready to go when they do :-)
