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Changing Notification Settings for all users on a Team
Is there a way to change the notification settings for everyone that is part of a Team Channel? In other words... we have a channel in our Teams chat that we want everyone to receive notifications fo...
No, only the users themselves can modify their notification settings, you cannot control this on their behalf.
No, only the users themselves can modify their notification settings, you cannot control this on their behalf.
VasilMichev You mean there isn't even a policy that could be applied?
- That is disappointing. Might seem like a small thing but adds a a lot of friction on adoption
Any plans to change this behaviour?DMinhas_MhealthI've just abandoned the idea of using Teams to communicate information to people we choose. I just e-mail them now, which is a sad workaround.
- We're in the middle of going the other way round and i now have to inform hundreds of non technical people to change a toggle. If all of them take on avg 4 mins reading and doing the thing, that's multiple days of productivity lost. I'm amazed as how this is a known concern since *2019*
- Has there been any change to this in the past year?
Seems incredibly foolish to now allow administrators to control this for an organization?- Hi, I think it's up to the organization itself whether it's stupid or not.
VasilMichev , I would like to add my vote for Microsoft to allow team owners to set channel notification settings that apply to all team/channel members. There could be some flexibility, such as owners being able to indicate whether or not team members can override channel notification settings put in place by the team owner. It is unreasonable to expect each team member to go in individually and turn on channel notifications for an important channel, especially for large teams.
No way at all? I'm sad to hear that. It would be okay if the default was that everyone receives notifications for all replies in a channel, but this is not the case... which is a problem for us.
I will let my team know.Thank you for telling me~
- Marty Smith
Microsoft
Reylin4 How about just putting an @Mention of the Channel Name in each message. Everyone would get that, right?
- If every user has to add a step (that people always forget) to every single post they make, that is the definition of what defaults are for. Why be in the channel in the first place if you don't want to receive notifications?
Reylin4 I agree with you and noticed the same thing. We just switched to Office 365 from G Suite and I'm planning training for my team and thought it was odd that notifications are OFF by default as most users aren't going to go through 20 channels just to turn them all on. Came across this post by searching how to force them on with no luck. Weird that there's no way to do this or at least have them ON by default. I thought sure it would be the other way around, TOO many notifications that you want to turn off vs trying to turn ones on!
