How to remove the Welcome Message when a new member joins a group.

We are moving from an on-premise Exchange 2013 environment (using Hybrid) and we have to move our DLs to the cloud. I can create them through powershell as a distribution group, but that does not wr...

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Siva Shanmugam
Mar 28, 2017
You can use the following command to suppress the welcome message for any new users added to the group as a member. The default value will be set to true for this parameter. So you will need to pass "false" as the value to suppress the welcome message.

Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$<true/false>

Brian Neese

Copper Contributor

Oct 13, 2017

Can this be done across the board for all groups or does it have to be done individually?

Walter Oswald

Copper Contributor

Oct 13, 2017

Hi Brian, actually I am not sure if you can do multi-groups in one command. From my experience, you need to set it for each. However, this is a one-time setup, you can connect to your Exchange account and need just change the command for the setup each time by entering one after the other group name and run.
Maybe somebody else from the community could accomplish this in a one-step command.

Thanks

-w

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How to remove the Welcome Message when a new member joins a group.