We have two needs:We need to list which members are either "Following" or "Not Following" a specified Office 365 group.We need a method to set all new Office 365 group members as "Following" an Office 365 group they've just been subscribed to (by the admin).

Get-UnifiedGroupLinks <group name> -linktype members This displays all members of the group. Get-UnifiedGroupLinks <group name> -linktype subscribers This displays all subscribers of the group. If you want to subscribe all members you can use:Add-UnifiedGroupLinks <group name> -linktype subscribers -links <member name>

Deleted - Can you elaborate on the use case you are trying to accomplish? Also note that receiving a message in the Inbox is not necessarily a way for senders to be confident that a message has been read. In addition, users can create rules and file messages in folders that they may never read. Again, it would be useful to understand the use case deeper. Ravin Sachdeva

Hi Daniel Smith - the notion of "Following" on SharePoint (your screenshot) is different from the notion of "Following group in Inbox" for Outlook. Adding Tejas Mehta and Dave Cohen (US) to clarify your query for SharePoint. At the moment, in modern SharePoint, when you follow a SP site, it is added to quick access in your SP nav bar (just like Favoriting). While, in Outlook, if you follow a group in inbox, you will start to receive copies of all conversations and events from that group in your inbox. I doubt if following a group in inbox in Outlook has any effect on how that group is viewed in SharePoint/OneDrive.

Adding Tejas Mehta to help here.

I guess he needs some kind of reporting about the usage and adoption of Groups in the organization and getting those lists could be a possible measure

Querying for who is "Following" an Office 365 group?

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Krish Gali
Former Employee
Aug 30, 2017
Deleted - Can you elaborate on the use case you are trying to accomplish? Also note that receiving a message in the Inbox is not necessarily a way for senders to be confident that a message has been read. In addition, users can create rules and file messages in folders that they may never read. Again, it would be useful to understand the use case deeper.

Ravin Sachdeva
- Daniel Smith
  Copper Contributor
  Aug 30, 2017
  This is part of a larger question about the difficulty our users are having with a specific function of OneDrive: Unless a user is "Following" an Office 365 group, the option to see it via OneDrive and to be able to copy files into that group's library is not available. Our users just cannot grasp that they need to complete several steps in order to "follow" all of the sites they'll need. Additionally, we don't see a way to administratively have certain sites "followed" by users automatically (by policy or by default). This is really frustrating for them. Any help would be appreciated!
  - Ravin Sachdeva
    Microsoft
    Aug 30, 2017
    Hi Daniel Smith - the notion of "Following" on SharePoint (your screenshot) is different from the notion of "Following group in Inbox" for Outlook.
    
    Adding Tejas Mehta and Dave Cohen (US) to clarify your query for SharePoint.
    
    At the moment, in modern SharePoint, when you follow a SP site, it is added to quick access in your SP nav bar (just like Favoriting). While, in Outlook, if you follow a group in inbox, you will start to receive copies of all conversations and events from that group in your inbox. I doubt if following a group in inbox in Outlook has any effect on how that group is viewed in SharePoint/OneDrive.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Aug 30, 2017
  I guess he needs some kind of reporting about the usage and adoption of Groups in the organization and getting those lists could be a possible measure

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Querying for who is "Following" an Office 365 group?

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