Admin controls required for New Feature: SharePoint Auto Digest Email MC215356
SharePoint auto digest email for SharePoint News is rolling out, but only the users themselves can unsubscribe. This is extremely inconvenient, we have customers who have thousands of users with active SPO licenses awaiting training and adoption activities. Their first introduction to SPO will now be a pointless weekly spam message from their new system.
SharePoint News is not actively used in all tenants either, pushing the feature like this might be disruptive to adoption plans and governance established. Please provide admin control over this feature.
45 comments
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Callum Daly
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This is more harmful than useful! Working in internal communications take time and effort in planning messages for our employees. At a bare minimum, we should be able to control the comms our employees receive from Microsoft, albeit not very useful or relevant to them.
Don't bother with an unsubscribe link. Give SharePoint owners the ability to turn it off automatically!
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Anonymous
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FFS MS, here we go again. I don't want this email landing in my service accounts. Don't offer an un-sub link if it's broken
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Melissa
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Please allow this feature to be turned off by the user!
This feature creates too much noise. We use the newsletter manually to ensure content is properly badged together.
It showcases an extreme lack of customer focus to force a feature that impacts an entire organisation, onto users
Internal communication pushes are carefully planned for and should not be pushed by an uncontrolable robot
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Anonymous
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This feature is not useful at all, it become surprise our organization users and if the news is yet to have proper review or having inappropriate content which will cause issue to employee mis-understood the intent of the news.
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Anonymous
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I don't understand why changes and additions like these don't seem to be thought through all the way. Wouldn't it be common sense to think an organization would want some control over this, like the ability to turn this feature off? Microsoft so frequently comes up with great ideas that it then ruins with poor judgement or a lack of customer concern.
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Wendy Finley
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We utilize the newsletter to manually select which news posts should be batched and send it within our organization. The automatic feature is duplicating the efforts, as well as sending articles that don't have any relevance to the audience. The automatic newsletter is driving our users to have a bad taste for SharePoint when we've worked so hard to get them to appreciate the benefits it can have. PLEASE GIVE US ABILITY TO TURN THIS OFF.
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Angela Ashby
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This is spam.
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Bruce
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Why put the option to disable this feature and then not implement it.
Set-SPOTenant -EnableAutoNewsDigest $false
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Anonymous
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We need to be able to control it !
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Anonymous
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We need admin control of this. We need to be able to control what to push to which groups. we need to be able to change the logo and the sender address.
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Anonymous
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Need admin control on this feature, the organization users is getting duplicate message from SharePoint and the email
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SF
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Hi microsoft, since before this was rolled out people have been asking for admin control on this. It is having real world implications in our organisation. Our staff are seeing news items our communications team does not want them to see. Please enable admin control - this is mad.
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Anonymous
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HI Microsoft - please turn off this auto digest feature - I work in communications and we prefer in our company to send out a monthly news digest at our own pace - we do not need it to be dictated to us. We also have to add in languages such as French/Italian/Swedish etc to our SharePoint news centre and this all takes time - we need control at customer level to be able to action the auto news digest ourselves please. thank you!
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Anonymous
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Our users now report this as phishing. Sorry, not a great idea.
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[Deleted User]
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Admin option is quick and easy
It is better if Microsoft ask users to subscribe to it rather than making it as default and then unsubscribe at the user level !
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Connell
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I agree admins should have the option to enable or disable this feature in the GUI.
Powershell does provide a way to disable this feature for your tenancy in the latest SharePoint Online Management Shell:
Set-SPOTenant -EnableAutoNewsDigest $true | $false
Check this out for details - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/automatically-sending-news-post-digests-b930b579-0de5-4c67-86f0-de64b87c45e3?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us
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Anonymous
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We need the ability to curate our news, this creates noise and is unhelpful - it has to be an admin option - I fully agree
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Luke Anderson
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This is a must have!
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Darren
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We need the ability to curate our news, this creates noise and is unhelpful - it has to be an admin option
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Anonymous
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This feature needs admin control and needs to be off by default. Additionally, there needs to be a way to add branding to the email so it does not appear as a phishing email