-HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled = true when created from Teams?
A recent update has changed -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled from default false to default true when Office 365 group is created by Teams. I would like an option for the user who creates the team to set this value upon creation. Our users need to use the O365 group as well as the team created in Teams. With this value set to true they cannot use the email functionality of the O365 group unless I use powershell to change the value every time someone creates a new team in Teams.
This post was created because of a suggestion from support and the information in this thread: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams/Teams-do-not-create-365-group/m-p/205983/thread-id/14745
Philip Netherclift
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Anonymous
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I don't have a problem with the default setting being whatever it is that Microsoft gets feedback for...but seriously...give us a way to change it using profile settings so we can affect groups of teams, or at least let us make templates with this setting already configured...doing it with powershell every time we have to make another team with a mailbox is annoying.
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Kevin Graeme
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This needs to be 1) A configuration option for tenant admins; and then if allowed by tenant admin, 2) a setting for Team/Group owners.
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webbrewer
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Another mesmerisingly poor decision by Msft. I get the need to give some admin control over what appears in outlook, but the obvious solution would be to give admins a ui switch to enable/disable group owner control, not block all outlook access by default. Powershell has just become a crutch that allows Msft to get away with cr*p like this.Even better, it should be an option when a Team is created - so users can choose what shows up in Outlook. Not rocket science...
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Tina Dee
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I too am having a hard to understanding the differences but I wish it was more fluid. I have a huge headache trying to figure out what connects to what.
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Jack Robbins
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Voting on this because the ability should be in the hands of the user who creates the Team to at least toggle this at creation - approaching the O365 admin each time a Team is created is cumbersome!
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Sarah
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Yes totally agree it should be the creator of the Team that has the ability to decide on this rather than having to get admin to sort it out
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UG
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I agree and would also like to see this fixed. Further related Tech Comm discussion: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-ama/why-the-teams-calendar-not-visible-in-outlook/m-p/300155
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Steven Cline
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What is the point of having a Team Calendar if it can't be easily referenced by the user???
Please make this a GUI option that is manageable by Team Owner -
Anonymous
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In case you want a fix for this issue until Microsoft gets their act together, you can read this thread:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/adding-a-shared-calendar-to-a-team/m-p/1411113#M59597 -
Anonymous
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Is there any expert here that can just post a power shell command that will solve this temporarily, until Microsoft realizes their mistake?
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Anonymous
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This absolutely needs to be included as a toggle option.
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Jesse Marshall
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this seems like a common sense configuration that should be available.
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Anonymous
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There should be a way via a UI for the team owner to choose whether this should be hidden or not. Keep the default to true, but DO provide a way for team owners to change this if needed.
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James
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Yes, please allow the Admin to change this setting without running Powershell on every new Team. Setting this to true is limiting a lot of useful functionality in Teams.
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James
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This would be fantastic as an option in Teams.
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Anonymous
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Dear Sirs,
I hope that you sincerely fix this issue with a "visible" or "not visible" option for everyone who uses Teams and Outlook online, because it is a very useful function that should be working.
If a user wants to write an email to the whole group, which was created in Teams, by using Outlook, why can't he do it?
That's not logical.
So please turn this option on for everybody.
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Beth Wetherbee
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I've wasted about 12 hours of my life trying to figure out why my Team, which I created following the instructions from Microsoft, would not show up in my Outlook Groups or in the GAL. My husband works for Microsoft and he couldn't figure it out either. I finally found a post on how to run PowerShell to make the Group show in Outlook/GAL which resolved my problem, but SERIOUSLY how do you expect the average user to be able to figure this out? ADD A BUTTON. Or change all of your documentation to say "If you want the Group functionality to work, make sure you create the Group in Outlook Online and then create the Team."
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Vincent Verbon
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This completely seems a high-level configuration attribute that should be available to end-users in creating the team (option: 'visible' or not) , configurable by policy on a company level (default true or false, disallow or allow changes by end-user) and correctable by admin (tick box attribute for the created group). Strange that it isn't from the outset and even more curious that it has been corrected this way. I say upvote and make this available
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EnRod713
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Please make this available to Teams owners. Can't believe it's 2020 and no one has listened to feedback.
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Kevin
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This needs fixed ASAP!!! It is completely ridiculous that the Admin of the Teams site can't turn this functionality on.