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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jun 07, 2017

See/change who is subscribed programmatically?

It's there a way (PowerShell, graph, etc) to query a group membership and see who is "subscribed" to receive notifications in their inbox? Similarly, is there a way to subscribe or unsubscribe a pa...
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  • VasilMichev's avatar
    VasilMichev
    Jun 20, 2017

    You can use the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet for that, simply set the member type as subscriber. It can be both a member and a subscriber, comparing those two will give you the list of which members are subscribers, etc.

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jcgonzalezmartin
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Give also a try to PnP PowerShell cmdlets that allow to work with Groups
Brent Ellis's avatar
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jun 20, 2017
More specifically, I am not looking for just members, I am looking for members who are "subscribed" to receive emails in their inbox, versus those that are members of the group and unsubscribed.

If possible, I need a way to mass subscribe (not join), or mass unsubscribe users programmatically, rather than their choice.
  • Ivan54's avatar
    Ivan54
    Bronze Contributor
    Jun 20, 2017
    Vasils command does show the subscibers. I have no clue though on how to manually subscribe users.
    I'm interested in this as well.
    • VasilMichev's avatar
      VasilMichev
      MVP
      Jun 20, 2017

      You can use the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet for that, simply set the member type as subscriber. It can be both a member and a subscriber, comparing those two will give you the list of which members are subscribers, etc.

      • Brent Ellis's avatar
        Brent Ellis
        Silver Contributor
        Jun 21, 2017

        Should have did a bit more research on those commands, didnt realize it treated Members/Subscribers differently!  

         

        Quite simply:

        • All subscribers are members
        • Not all members are subscribers

         

        Add a user as a member only:

        Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity GROUP -LinkType Members -Links user@email.com

         

        Add a user as a member or subscriber, and/or change a member to a member+subscriber

        Add-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity GROUP -LinkType Subscribers -Links user@email.com

         

        Remove a user from the group:

        Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity GROUP -LinkType Members -Links user@email.com

         

        Remove a subscription, but not a membership

        Remove-UnifiedGroupLinks -Identity GROUP -LinkType Subscribers -Links user@email.com

         

         

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