Microsoft listens: Groups customers will get aid from undesirable emails quickly

A number of Microsoft Groups customers have been complaining about receiving far too many pointless emails. Microsoft has now listened to the criticism. Beginning June 1st of this yr, customers will not obtain automated Groups emails about expired assembly recordings.

Individuals who wish to proceed receiving these emails might want to change a brand new setting that shall be added shortly. Extra details about the change is on the market in Microsoft’s announcement submit.

Right here’s what’s altering:

Beginning June 1st, we are going to cease sending e-mail notifications for expired Microsoft Groups assembly recordings. We’re making this modification resulting from complaints we acquired from many shoppers in regards to the excessive quantity of notifications which they deemed low worth. This modification permits us to respect your preferences whereas guaranteeing crucial communications stay accessible. Recording expiration and deletion insurance policies stay unchanged and objects that expire shall be deleted even when notifications aren’t being despatched.

If you wish to preserve receiving these notifications:

For these clients that wish to proceed receiving e-mail notifications, we are going to create a brand new setting and make it obtainable earlier than June 1st. This shall be a per-tenant setting. We’ll ship one other message heart submit as soon as this setting is on the market and replace our documentation on this dialogue and on our assist web page.

You’ll nonetheless get different e-mail notification varieties, however this might be a great first step in the direction of minimizing the quantity of Groups emails we’ve to endure.