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In the "New" version of Outlook, I no longer see the checkbox in my Groups to auto-add new employees to the Group. In the "Classic" version, I could un-check this box when editing the Group, which would ensure that only the members I added will be in the group. However, in "New" Outlook, new employees are being auto-added to my groups, causing me to have to manually remove a member each time one gets hired. I have many Groups that I use, so this becomes cumbersome. It also creates issues when I haven't realized a new person has been hired, and that person is being sent sensitive information. How can I stop this from happening?
Thanks in advance!
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Md Ashabul Haque | Microsoft Community Moderator
Hello Johnston-T,
Good day. Thank you so much for choosing Microsoft Community!
I apologize for the issue you are experiencing. I understand your frustration with the new Outlook version's behavior of automatically adding new employees to your contact groups. This change can indeed be problematic, especially if you have a large number of groups that you manage. Based on the provided contexts, it seems that the new Outlook version has removed the ability to uncheck the option to automatically add new members to a group. This is a significant change from the "Classic" Outlook version, where you could control this setting.
Keep in mind that since the new outlook is still in active development, Microsoft is constantly working to improve its products and add many new features to the new outlook. I suggest you take a look at the Microsoft Outlook blog Things to expect in the new Outlook for Windows - Microsoft Community Hub or the Microsoft 365 roadmap | Microsoft 365 for any feature updates. In the meantime, I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will relay your feedback to the appropriate team for consideration in future updates. If you rely heavily on these features, you may want to consider exiting the new preview of Outlook for Windows for now. I'll also update here once I get additional information and the specific timeline for the feature will be added. I suggest you contact the new Outlook for Windows at the application support team for this new Outlook issue:
Contact support and provide feedback on the new Outlook for Windows - Microsoft Support
If you don't mind, provide feedback on this feature request by creating a new post in the Feedback Portal in Outlook · Community (microsoft.com), or directly through its new perspective (Help-->Feedback), Microsoft is committed to improving the customer experience by continually reviewing suggestions to include in the design and development of future product updates based on your feedback.
Thank you for choosing the MS community.
We look forward to hearing back and having a great day ahead!
Sincerely
Md Ashabul Haque | Microsoft Community Moderator
Understood and will do, thank you!
