Office 365 Group: How to Disable Welcome Email for new members?
Requirement: Turn-Off the Welcome Email in a Microsoft 365 Group.
How to disable the welcome email for Office 365 Group?
When a new user is added to Microsoft 365 group, they’d receive an Email with the subject “You’ve joined the <Team Name>”. On migrating to Office 365 group, we wanted to turn off the welcome email from a Office 365 group. So, Here is the PowerShell script to disable welcome message in Office 365 groups. I’m assuming you have Microsoft Exchange Online PowerShell Module installed (If not, do: Install-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement) and you are running this as Global Admin or Exchange Online Administrator.
#Parameters
$GroupId = "[email protected]"
#Connect to Exchange Online
Connect-ExchangeOnline -Credential (Get-Credential)
#Disable the Group Welcome Message Email
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity $GroupId -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
That’s all! From now on, any new user added to the group will not receive a welcome email.
Disable welcome email for all Office 365 Groups
What if you want to prevent welcome emails from being sent out for all Office 365 Groups in the environment?
#Connect to Exchange Online
Connect-ExchangeOnline -Credential (Get-Credential)
#Get All Groups where Welcome Email is enabled
$WelcomeEmailGroups = Get-UnifiedGroup | Where-Object { $_.WelcomeMessageEnabled -eq $True }
#Disable Welcome Email
ForEach($Group in $WelcomeEmailGroups)
{
#Disable the Group Welcome Message Email
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity $Group.Id -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
Write-host "Welcome Email Disabled for the Group:"$Group.PrimarySmtpAddress
}
This script simply disables the welcome message for Office 365 unified group wherever it’s enabled.
