Turning off email notification when adding team members to MS Teams.

Question

Hi - is it possible to add team members and not automatically generate an email notification to the person being added?

I'd like to add some people but don't want them to receive an email notification that they have been added to a Team; counter-intuitive, yes, but I prefer to not over-communicate for some of our colleagues.

Thanks you.

Answer 1

Hi EricPLD,

Thanks for posting here, I'm very willing to help you.

You can only use PowerShell cdml in order to disable your welcome message notification to the user. Please follow the instruction below:

1. Connect to your Office 365 Admin using PowerShell(about how to connect please refer to this article:https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/connect-to-exchange-online-powershell?view=exchange-ps)
2. Execute the following command Get-UnifiedGroup <group name> | fl WelcomeMessageEnabled to see if its set to True
3. Set it to be False in order to turn off notifications to the newly added users

• Get-UnifiedGroup <group name> | Set-UnifiedGroup -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false

Hope this can help you if you need any further help please feel free to let me know and  have a great weekends.

Best Regards,

Regina

Answer 2

Hi EricPLD,

If you need any further help, please feel free to let me know, I will always be happy to help you, wish you all the best :)

Best regards,

Regina