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Brass Contributor

Jan 28, 2020

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SharePoint Online - How to re-subscribe likes and comments email notifications

If somebody likes some of my sitepages/news, I receive the following email: It is possible to click on Unsubscribe in the notification mail , it works fine. I receive the following confirma...

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Kim Blomberg
Feb 03, 2021
Returning back after deep diving into SP depths.

Notification unsubscriptions are stored in each user's personal site (OneDrive) under hidden list named as "notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA-2564-4A22-A5F9-6C4FCAFF53DE"

Unsubscribing likes adds SubscriptionId "email_unsubscribe_Like" to the list which then blocks like notifications
Unsubscribing likes adds SubscriptionId "email_unsubscribe_Comment" to the list which then blocks comment notifications

Removing each line reactivates notifications on the specific type of notification

URL for this list is in format of
https://[tenant]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[user_name_domain_here]/Lists/notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA25644A22/AllItems.aspx

Wrote short PowerShell to remove this for a single user
Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://[tenant]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[user_name_domain] $ListName = "notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA-2564-4A22-A5F9-6C4FCAFF53DE" $listItems= (Get-PnPListItem -List $ListName -Fields "Title","SubscriptionId","GUID") foreach($listItem in $listItems){ Write-Host "SubscriptionId" : $listItem["SubscriptionId"] if($listItem["SubscriptionId"] -eq "email_unsubscribe_Like") { # remove unsubscribe Remove-PnPListItem -Identity $listItem.Id -List $ListName -Confirm $false Write-Host "Removed likes unsubscription!" } }

Additional info on these hidden lists can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/export-odfb-lists

Kim Blomberg

Brass Contributor

Feb 03, 2021

Comment notifications can be re-subscribed from OneDrive-settings through gear -> OneDrive settings -> Email notification when others comment on my documents.
Not the most obvious place to control communication site comment notifications but there it is.

But unfortunately have not yet figured out where likes could be controlled so that still remains a mystery...

Kim Blomberg

Brass Contributor

Feb 03, 2021

Returning back after deep diving into SP depths.

Notification unsubscriptions are stored in each user's personal site (OneDrive) under hidden list named as "notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA-2564-4A22-A5F9-6C4FCAFF53DE"

Unsubscribing likes adds SubscriptionId "email_unsubscribe_Like" to the list which then blocks like notifications

Unsubscribing likes adds SubscriptionId "email_unsubscribe_Comment" to the list which then blocks comment notifications

Removing each line reactivates notifications on the specific type of notification

URL for this list is in format of

https://[tenant]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[user_name_domain_here]/Lists/notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA25644A22/AllItems.aspx

Wrote short PowerShell to remove this for a single user

Connect-PnPOnline -Url https://[tenant]-my.sharepoint.com/personal/[user_name_domain]
$ListName = "notificationSubscriptionHiddenList6D1E55DA-2564-4A22-A5F9-6C4FCAFF53DE"

$listItems= (Get-PnPListItem -List $ListName -Fields "Title","SubscriptionId","GUID")  
foreach($listItem in $listItems){  
   Write-Host "SubscriptionId" : $listItem["SubscriptionId"]  
   if($listItem["SubscriptionId"] -eq "email_unsubscribe_Like") { # remove unsubscribe
       Remove-PnPListItem -Identity $listItem.Id -List $ListName -Confirm $false
Write-Host "Removed likes unsubscription!"  
   }
   
}

Additional info on these hidden lists can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/export-odfb-lists

Marius_Panusch
Copper Contributor
Feb 05, 2021
Thank you Kim. This works like charm 🙂