Advertising in Sharepoint for other products? Grrr........ stop Microsoft......

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Is this the new norm now?&nbsp; I have to say that I love 99% of Office 365 and am all-aboard.&nbsp; However, the continued push of "Get the Mobile app" and now Teams advertising within Document Libraries really does get in the way of otherwise great products.&nbsp; Most companies want more control over the software that users use and try to integrate some type of business purpose or objective for the tools they deploy.&nbsp; I'm not even mentioning the nightmare the users creating Teams and Groups all willy nilly could create.&nbsp; I realize we can change permissions on who can create Groups and Teams, etc, but does that friendly add change as perms do?&nbsp; And no, I don't want the **bleep** mobile app...………. ever.&nbsp; And yes, you can turn it off but it has come back...……&nbsp;&nbsp;

chriswebbtech · Answer

kind of have to agree with you here. I'd much rather things like these and the "feedback" and mobile app links all be configurable. I haven't checked latest powershell etc. to see if there is a setting for it, but latest track record there probably isn't :P. If not, we should IMO.

jcgonzalezmartin · Answer

Totally agree here, could be nice to disable / enable this "notice"...curious to know if it dissapears in an scenario where Groups and Teams creation is configured only for some people

tejas mehta · Answer

Thanks all - this is the kind of feedback I was looking for, and is why we started rolling to Targeted Release customers first (I'm talking specifically about the 'Add a Team' feature from SharePoint).  We are looking at adding ability to control/dismiss the banner.

tejas mehta · Answer

Oh, and to answer your other question - the logic for showing the banner depends on whether the user has the ability to a) create Teams; b) is a group owner; c) Teams is enabled. &nbsp; Very similar to the logic if you were in the Teams experience and created a Team and pointed it to an existing group.

clint lechner · Answer

The issue here is that there are products/features being highlighted that a certain segment of your customers might not use, might not want to use, or might go against the culture, rules, or business decisions they have made.&nbsp; For instance, "Get the mobile app" being put up everywhere forces specific uses of Sharepoint and places in Sharepoint to be highlighted in a way that forces companies and administrators to have to change how things are rolled out, stored, etc (and not always in a good way).&nbsp; OneDrive does this a little bit too by just showing everything.&nbsp; It's frustrating.

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Advertising in Sharepoint for other products? Grrr........ stop Microsoft......

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