Azure groups welcome email

Question

A department in my company requested a new group on Azure, which I created with an assigned owner. However, members received a "welcome email" directly from the owner (not on behalf), which raised security concerns. I have the PowerShell command to disable it in the future, but now the director of this department requesting an official Microsoft URL as proof. Can anyone provide a resource that can help me find this information?

Answer 1

Hi @Kareem Soliman

I understand your situation. It seems that the welcome email for new members in Microsoft 365 groups is enabled by default, if you want to disable it, try the following command:

Connect-ExchangeOnline
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "******@contoso.com" -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnable:$false

Microsoft official document source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps#-unifiedgroupwelcomemessageenabled.

Hope this helps.

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