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You no longer receive messages sent to Office 365 'Groups' that you are a member of
Update (7/25/2018):
Thanks for all your feedback and sharing your concerns. Our mission is to help you be more productive at your work, and some users complained about their workflows being affected with this change.
Based on the feedback we've seen from our users on this post, we are working on making this option configurable for our users. We are adding a switch which can be toggled by the user to start receiving their sent emails to Groups back in their inbox.
The exact details on how this setting can be used and the timeline for this change will be communicated soon. Thanks for your patience.
MicrosoftHi folks, I have some great news! Thanks a lot for patiently waiting for this functionality with O365 groups. We are happy to announce that we are introducing a user setting which will allow users to start receiving their sent emails to O365 groups back in their inbox.
Please refer to this link to learn how to use this feature: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/follow-a-group-in-outlook-e147fc19-f548-4cd2-834f-80c6235b7c36?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US#ID0EAACAAA=Web
As always, we are open to more feedback on this functionality and we'd love to know what you think.
I found another scenario where the current option of allowing end-users to set "Follow in inbox" group email setting isn't enough. This is the case specifically when group members are guests of the group. The don't log into the tenant and don't have a mailbox local to the tenant. These users can NOT use the web interface or Outlook desktop client to enable the "Follow a group"/"Follow in inbox" rule.
I work with a county-wide educational cooperative made up of the three school districts in our county. I'm creating Office 365 groups (because that's the recommendation and it opens up some other possibilities as Microsoft in keen on reminding us of) instead of traditional Distribution Lists for several cross-district groups (Superintendents, Principals, Building Secretaries, Counselors, Nurses, etc, etc) so they can communicate easily among themselves and also others in the county can easily communicate with them as a group. Almost none of the members in these cases are homed in the base tenant. I have no way through the Admin Portal/Groups admin interface(s), or PowerShell to set this setting for these groups and their members. Again, makes me want to roll these back to traditional Distribution Lists.
Also, do appreciate Microsoft (seemingly) listening to us on this and in providing an option for end-users that are homed in the tenant of the group to set this themselves. But, we do need more than this to satisfy requirements of functionality for what we had with Distribution Lists.
As Kreera_House stated in her post on 3/3/2019, an admin needs to be able to set a group default, with options of letting end users change the setting if we want them to have that option, would be great!
At this point, makes me want to go back to DLs! Hopefully it won't be an additional 3 years before we have a full solution!
Any update you might be able to give us on this?
Thanks!
Jared