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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.
James Arber From the perspective of a person who has worked in IT for a long enough time: forcing users to do something the right way works WAY better than having 1,000 unique versions of what they think is right. This is not just me, this is based on calls to the helpdesk, and employee surveys.
Is it always the best solution? Obviously no, because nothing operates in absolutes, but in the high 90%s? Yeah, it's generally best policy to force users to not be allowed to have bad behaviour.