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is there away to disable reactions to emails
Hi all,
Is there away to disable reactions for outlook emails for all the org as an admin?
It's on the roadmap, supposedly starting next month:
VNJoe, Absolutely agree, but I was offering a solution in the meantime: make them abide by their documentation. Hopefully the roadmap feature is still on track for release in June, but I'd personally consider opening a ticket anyway, in case the rollout gets delayed.
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- All part of the incessant dumb-down of Windows, catering to the whims of users barely capable of stringing a coherent sentence together!
It's on the roadmap, supposedly starting next month:
VNJoe, Absolutely agree, but I was offering a solution in the meantime: make them abide by their documentation. Hopefully the roadmap feature is still on track for release in June, but I'd personally consider opening a ticket anyway, in case the rollout gets delayed.
Insert your admin UPN below and run
# Connect to Exchange Online
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName <email address removed for privacy reasons> -ShowProgress $true
# Define the custom header and its value
$CustomHeaderName = "x-ms-reactions"
$CustomHeaderValue = "disallow"$RulePriority = 1
# Create the mail flow rule
New-TransportRule -Name "Drop Reactions" -SetHeaderName $CustomHeaderName -SetHeaderValue $CustomHeaderValue -Priority $RulePriority
# Disconnect from Exchange Online
Disconnect-ExchangeOnline -Confirm:$false- No, you're great, thanks for sharing this! I'm planning on requesting it for all my customers who are complaining about these meaningless social media gags on a business system, hopefully there's a PowerShell command to run to disable it.
- Add this is as a rule to all your tenants for all messages in and out (put it in the header of all messages)
x-ms-reactions: disallow
This is an entirely unwelcome and unprofessional update.
This is business messaging not a social media platform.
- It means:
- Email is business communication
- 'Liking' things is a social media mechanism, not a business messaging mechanism
- Any email "feature" that's not universal on all email systems (not a Microsoft tenant) is exclusionary
- Liking emails from customers that don't have O365 gives the impression an employee did something good and the customer the impression that their vendor did NOTHING because they don't get a response at all
It's pretty straightforward.
- I had a case open with Microsoft and no, there is no way to stop this. They shoehorned in this stupid feature, and the only way to stop those emails is by making a rule. That's right, no-reply emails, ticketing system emails, they all get a stupid digest of reactions that nobody ever asked for
It is unreal that we pay an absolute arm and a leg for this service and stuff like this is allowed to fly.- Can you share details of the case?
wcsand , I don't know if this is new since December, but per MS's own documentation at
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/office/reactions-in-microsoft-outlook-06315501-a790-4a2a-90c1-fbc89d84c393, in the Information for Administrator section, you SHOULD be able to open a support ticket for your tenant to be placed on a block list for this feature:
- Sure, but how about sticking to "Secure by Default" and NOT enabling features by default? They throw that phrase around when it suits their needs...
- If you'd like to turn off the suggested replies feature, use the following steps:
Select File > Options > Mail > Replies and forwards.
Clear the check box for Show suggested replies.
Select OK.
Greeting,
Rachel Gomez
- Afaik no, sorry.
- How about stopping the emails to say someone has liked your email ? This could be done via a rule?
- I suppose so, yes.
