Hi, When creating a new team in Microsoft Teams, there is an option to "send copies of team emails and events to team members' inboxes." By default, this setting is always turned off. Is there a way to set this option to be enabled by default, so I don’t have to manually turn it on every time I create a new team? Also is there a way to tick this box for all existing teams? Thanks in advance

Unfortunately there isn't such option. If you are provisioning Groups/Teams via PowerShell or the Graph API, just add the relevant parameter therein (for example New-UnifiedGroup -AutoSubscribeNewMembers). Otherwise, you need to switch it post-creation. Also, keep in mind that toggling this setting only applies to newly added members to the Group/Team. Existing members will still not be "subscribed", so if you want to remedy that you need to add them to the subscribers list via Add-UnifiedGroupLinks.

Default Setting for Team Email Notifications in Microsoft Teams

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Vasil Michev 107.7K Reputation points MVP

2024-10-02T16:13:30.8733333+00:00

Unfortunately there isn't such option. If you are provisioning Groups/Teams via PowerShell or the Graph API, just add the relevant parameter therein (for example New-UnifiedGroup -AutoSubscribeNewMembers). Otherwise, you need to switch it post-creation.

Also, keep in mind that toggling this setting only applies to newly added members to the Group/Team. Existing members will still not be "subscribed", so if you want to remedy that you need to add them to the subscribers list via Add-UnifiedGroupLinks.
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JimmyYang-MSFT 53,761 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2024-10-03T08:53:54.96+00:00

@Aran Billen

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.

Aran Billen 826 Reputation points

2024-10-09T07:25:45.89+00:00

Hi both,

By using Set-UnifiedGroup GroupName -AutoSubscribeNewMembers:$True for each team this does tick this box:

Not sure if it works correctly after doing it via powershell using the abovew code however when I do this manually by ticking this box any future emails sent will arrive in those inboxes of all members including existing.

Any ideas? If this is the case and the code Set-UnifiedGroup GroupName -AutoSubscribeNewMembers:$True works then is there a way for doing this for all teams within our tenant and prevent it from stopping after the first few 100?

Vasil Michev 107.7K Reputation points MVP

2024-10-09T07:40:05.4333333+00:00

If you want to cover all groups, use this:

Get-UnifiedGroup -ResultSize Unlimited | Set-UnifiedGroup -AutoSubscribeNewMembers:$True

Again, this will not affect existing members.

Aran Billen 826 Reputation points

2024-10-09T08:00:29.6+00:00

Thanks, What would be the code for existing members?

Vasil Michev 107.7K Reputation points MVP

2024-10-09T10:23:29.0733333+00:00

Existing members you'll have to "subscribe" via the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks cmdlet. For example:

Get-UnifiedGroupLinks groupname -LinkType member | % { Add-UnifiedGroupLinks groupname -Links $_.PrimarySmtpAddress -LinkType subscriber }

Aran Billen 826 Reputation points

2024-10-09T13:48:50.8366667+00:00

Hi,

Is there a way to do the script you sent to "subscribe" for all teams in tenant ?

Aran Billen 826 Reputation points

2024-10-09T13:49:29.65+00:00

Hi,

Is there a way to do this for all teams in tenant?
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