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Copper Contributor

Jan 15, 2020

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SharePoint Comment Notifications

In mid 2019, "When someone comments on your page or news post, SharePoint notifies you via email." was finally introduced: According to authors at my site, they finally started getting comment no...

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Andrew Hodges
Jan 15, 2020
Hi TLBGT ,

As far as I know its just on and cannot be turned off unless the user unsubscribes. I have tested the functionality this morning in a tenant that is set to first release and notifications are working.

There is a setting in a users OneDrive settings to allow notifications from comments so If they have unsubscribed this is where in theory you should be able to turn it back on.

Hope that helps

Andrew Hodges

Bronze Contributor

Jan 15, 2020

Hi TLBGT ,

As far as I know its just on and cannot be turned off unless the user unsubscribes. I have tested the functionality this morning in a tenant that is set to first release and notifications are working.

There is a setting in a users OneDrive settings to allow notifications from comments so If they have unsubscribed this is where in theory you should be able to turn it back on.

Hope that helps

TLBGT
Copper Contributor
Jan 15, 2020
That will work. We were wondering if there was an "on/off" in the site settings since my searches turned up several instances of people stating that "it used to work and now it doesn't". The total lack of documentation of this feature is a bit unnerving. Thanks Andrew Hodges