Enable-Disable Automatic News Digest in SharePoint Online

Requirement: Disable the automatic news digest in SharePoint Online.

How to Disable the SharePoint Online Automatic News Digest Emails?

The Auto News Digest Feature in SharePoint Online sends automated emails to users on the latest relevant News posts from SharePoint sites to which they have access but have not viewed yet, on a weekly basis. This feature is enabled by default in the tenant. Although this is an excellent way for users to catch up on News, if you want to turn it off, You can use the following PowerShell scripts:

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PowerShell to Disable Automatic News Digest

Although users can click the unsubscribe button at the bottom of the email to get rid of weekly digest emails, If you want to disable the SharePoint auto news digest feature for all users at the tenant level, use this PowerShell as an administrator:

Make sure you have updated the SharePoint Online PowerShell module: Update-Module Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.Powershell

Here is the PowerShell to disable Automatic News Digest Feature in SharePoint Online:

#Connect to SharePoint Online 
Connect-SPOService -url "https://Crescent-admin.sharepoint.com"

#Diable Auto news digest feature
Set-SPOTenant -EnableAutoNewsDigest $False

To re-enable this feature, execute the following cmdlet.

Set-SPOTenant -EnableAutoNewsDigest $true

The same can be done with PnP PowerShell as well:

#Connect to PnP Online
Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://crescent-admin.sharepoint.com" -Interactive

#Disable the Auto News Digest
Set-PnPTenant -EnableAutoNewsDigest $False

Once executed, all users of the tenant will stop receiving the weekly news digest from SharePoint Online. If needed, You can manually generate a custom news digest from the News available on sites.

Salaudeen Rajack

Salaudeen Rajack - SharePoint Expert with Two decades of SharePoint Experience. Love to Share my knowledge and experience with the SharePoint community, through real-time articles!

4 thoughts on “Enable-Disable Automatic News Digest in SharePoint Online

  • Whether this email will be sent to Guest users and View access users?

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  • It is really nice blog, thanks for that. Is there a way to delete the site features like News Feed etc.?

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  • Thanks for the blog , is there any way to disable automated news digest email in site collection level

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