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Jason Hopp
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Mar 24, 2017
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How to remove the Welcome Message when a new member joins a group.

We are moving from an on-premise Exchange 2013 environment (using Hybrid) and we have to move our DLs to the cloud.  I can create them through powershell as a distribution group, but that does not wr...
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  • Siva Shanmugam's avatar
    Siva Shanmugam
    Mar 28, 2017

    You can use the following command to suppress the welcome message for any new users added to the group as a member. The default value will be set to true for this parameter. So you will need to pass "false" as the value to suppress the welcome message.

     

    Set-UnifiedGroup <groupname> -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$<true/false>

     

     

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BLim510
Copper Contributor
Oct 21, 2022
The -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false seems to have stopped working.
I tested it out on a MS Team about a month or so ago and it did not send the welcome emails. But when I did it yesterday (10/20/22) with the presumption that it would not send them, it sent them! Created quite a mess when they were supposed to be added quietly and now have to tell them to ignore it for now.
I've toggled it just to see if that might get it to work again to no avail.
  • dilipmenon's avatar
    dilipmenon
    Copper Contributor
    Nov 16, 2022
    -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false doesnt seem to work anymore.
    • eneto231's avatar
      eneto231
      Copper Contributor
      Apr 10, 2024
      I tried it today, and it worked well. The user didn't get the notification.

      Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "Hello World" -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
      • Felix_D3's avatar
        Felix_D3
        Copper Contributor
        Oct 24, 2024
        It works for me too
        Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity $teamName -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false

        I can check the setting for the group but then I have to look for "WelcomeMessageEnabled" instead.
        Get-UnifiedGroup -Identity $teamName | Select-Object WelcomeMessageEnabled

        I have not yet found a way to do this via Graph API. It would be better!

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