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Aug 29, 2017Querying for who is "Following" an Office 365 group?
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 ...
Melissa McConnell
May 14, 2018Copper Contributor
Any idea if someone was successful with this?
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Aug 15, 2018Get-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>
- Rick SegalApr 25, 2019Copper Contributor
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Greetings from Vancouver Island, Canada. James, in the answer I'm replying to, are these powershell commands? Is the last one the command to force following? Or, after using this command, everybody gets emails, etc. in the inbox until they unfollow.. What I mean is you can set em all but there's no way to prevent the user to unfollow.
thx
- Ravin SachdevaSep 14, 2018
Microsoft
Hi folks,
Just to be clear - Favorite Groups in Outlook and Following Sites in SharePoint currently mean 2 different things.
Outlook: When you Favorite a Group, you would see that group added to the list of your favorites only in Outlook left navigation pane. When you 'Follow a group in Inbox' in Outlook, you will receive all conversations and events from that group in your Outlook inbox.
SharePoint: For modern SharePoint sites, when you follow a site, that site would get added to the 'Following' section on the SharePoint left navigation pane.
We do understand that the terminology we currently have in the products is confusing and we are working to improve the consistency and coherence of the apps across the suite. Since there are a few places where we need to fix this (without breaking current user flow/expectation) this might take a little bit of time. Please bear with us and thanks for your patience.
- Russell HammersmithSep 14, 2018Copper Contributor
Unfortunately, I have found that subscribing or following in Outlook is not the same as following in Sharepoint. I would like to admistratively(powershell) allow users to follow the Sharepoint Group/Team so that the Documents Library shows up in their Onedrive page.
I found this article that discusses how the terminology can be misleading:
- DeletedSep 13, 2018
Yes, "subscribed" is the same as "following". I am not sure why MS keeps changing terminology, but it is what it is...
- Russell HammersmithSep 13, 2018Copper Contributor
But, is "subscribing" the same as "following" in SharePoint Groups?