Sep 06 2018 12:47 PM
I want to add members to an existing Office365 Group, but for various reasons, I don't want them to receive an email notification. Is there a way to turn that notification off?
Sep 06 2018 01:16 PM
SolutionHey @Tammy Emond,
I think I should be able to help you out!
There is not a way to my knowledge to do this in outlook or the O365 GUI, but there is a way to do this in Powershell.
In Powershell O365 groups use the commands that are around "unified groups," which was an old name for what became O365 Groups. There is an attribute in there that is called a welcome message.
So for each group you wanted to do this on, you would need to run the following in Exchange Online Powershell.
Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled $false
To turn it back on, just pass the same command with $true
Adam
Sep 06 2018 01:40 PM
Thanks Adam! I was hoping to be able to do this without using Powershell. I see that this has already been suggested to MS, so here's hoping they come up with a simple solution (like a checkbox?)...
Sep 06 2018 01:58 PM
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Apr 30 2020 06:36 AM
@Adam Ochs, can this script or something similar be set so that all new dynamic groups will not send out an email?
May 01 2020 01:37 AM
just execute the above PowerShell commandlet immediately after creating a group - what's the problem?
Jul 29 2020 01:42 PM
@Victor Ivanidze The "problem" is that the person who is creating the group may not have permissions to run the powershell command for exchange online / unifed groups. So now you've involved two staff and added a delay to the process of creating a group. I want a way to change the default behavior globally.
Jul 30 2020 04:53 AM
I don't catch your point. You can assign a person who is creating the group permission to run the PowerShell command, correct?
Jul 31 2020 07:50 AM
@Tammy Emond my boss found that if you create a Team, it creates an email group. If you add people to that created email group, it will add them to the team without sending them an email
Aug 20 2020 12:41 PM
Just want to clarify this command and how it's written here; it should appear as:
Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
The : was missing between Enabled and $false. After that it worked perfectly.
Thank you!
Sep 16 2020 11:13 AM
@petersonhd, can you elaborate on this process? I need to bulk add people before sending out an email communication, and PowerShell isn't an option.
Sep 16 2020 11:37 AM
@dhawley If I remember correctly, after you create the team it makes a group in 365. From the admin center, go to Groups then active groups. If you search for the team name, you should find it and the group type will be Microsoft 365. Click on the group and add members. This will add them to the team and our users didn't get an email about it.
Sep 16 2020 01:15 PM
@petersonhd, so I would need to be a tenant admin? I tried finding and accessing admin portal URL for my tenant, but to no avail.
Sep 28 2021 01:55 AM
Sep 05 2022 05:43 AM - edited Sep 05 2022 06:33 AM
Yes it is working, (without Powershell)@petersonhd your boos is a genius:)
1) Create a new Team (in Teams) - by creation of the Team: link it with the existing mail Group.
2) Add members to the Team, it will be immediately visible in the mail Group without any e-mails.
Feb 27 2023 07:00 AM