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Changing Notification Settings for all users on a Team
Is there a way to change the notification settings for everyone that is part of a Team Channel? In other words... we have a channel in our Teams chat that we want everyone to receive notifications fo...
No, only the users themselves can modify their notification settings, you cannot control this on their behalf.
I think trying to force a single way of working down from above is what makes users hate IT.
Sure, some users can find the amount of notifications they receive annoying, but its up to them to decide what they want to react to.
If something is critically important, you can always use the Urgent message flag (assuming you have the appropriate licence to use that)
But my experience as a Teams consultant here is that any implementation of Teams needs change management, not just "training" and not just for the users. But a strategy that looks at how Teams can do things better rather than just trying to replicate old tools.
Forcing ways of working down peoples throats is not going to drive adoption, if you make something painful to use, that's when shadow IT pops up.
Sure, some users can find the amount of notifications they receive annoying, but its up to them to decide what they want to react to.
If something is critically important, you can always use the Urgent message flag (assuming you have the appropriate licence to use that)
But my experience as a Teams consultant here is that any implementation of Teams needs change management, not just "training" and not just for the users. But a strategy that looks at how Teams can do things better rather than just trying to replicate old tools.
Forcing ways of working down peoples throats is not going to drive adoption, if you make something painful to use, that's when shadow IT pops up.
How do you then encourage the adoption to not very IT literate staff? I find that in our organisation most people use only the chat function in teams, but don't use channels, because they never get notifications that things are there, so they never look.
In my previous job a description was made and uploaded to teams wiki, it was basically a set of management defined rules on which channels and chats to follow and with what frequency.
Control with who could create channels etc. was a logic part of the same.
Colin Donaldson What I find the most useful is to tag the channel general using "@" and that'll make sure everyone gets a notification. You can also email the team with instructions on how to change it. You can click the three dots next to a channel and select "get email" and then send something in Outlook.
