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Querying for who is "Following" an Office 365 group?
MicrosoftDeleted - Can you elaborate on the use case you are trying to accomplish? Also note that receiving a message in the Inbox is not necessarily a way for senders to be confident that a message has been read. In addition, users can create rules and file messages in folders that they may never read. Again, it would be useful to understand the use case deeper.
- I guess he needs some kind of reporting about the usage and adoption of Groups in the organization and getting those lists could be a possible measure
This is part of a larger question about the difficulty our users are having with a specific function of OneDrive: Unless a user is "Following" an Office 365 group, the option to see it via OneDrive and to be able to copy files into that group's library is not available. Our users just cannot grasp that they need to complete several steps in order to "follow" all of the sites they'll need. Additionally, we don't see a way to administratively have certain sites "followed" by users automatically (by policy or by default). This is really frustrating for them. Any help would be appreciated!
- Ravin Sachdeva
Hi Daniel Smith - the notion of "Following" on SharePoint (your screenshot) is different from the notion of "Following group in Inbox" for Outlook.
Adding Tejas Mehta and Dave Cohen (US) to clarify your query for SharePoint.
At the moment, in modern SharePoint, when you follow a SP site, it is added to quick access in your SP nav bar (just like Favoriting). While, in Outlook, if you follow a group in inbox, you will start to receive copies of all conversations and events from that group in your inbox. I doubt if following a group in inbox in Outlook has any effect on how that group is viewed in SharePoint/OneDrive.
Correct, we're focusing on following a "site" so that it will be visible for file copies via OneDrive.
Is there a way to administratively force someone to follow a site (either by default or by ongoing policy)? This would really ease the support of our users.
