Emailing Teams

[chris11256]

Before I log a support case with Microsoft, has anyone been having problems with teachers emailing their class Teams this year? We have the usual Salamander & SDS setup and make sure all class Teams have the 'Send copies of team email & events to team members' inbox' box ticked. However the emails seem to just disappear. A message trace says the distribution list was expanded, but none of the student actually received the email.

[psydii]

Salamander told us last year that SDS has changed and now provisions the members explicitly  as "members" not "subscribers" overriding whatever it set at the team level.

 

Their only fix was for us to give them a GA account. So instead we just run a script to made all members subscribers. 

$classteams = Get-UnifiedGroup -Anr "Section_2024"
foreach ($class in $classteams) {
    $class.PrimarySmtpAddress
    add-unifiedgrouplinks  -identity $class -links (Get-UnifiedGroupLinks $class.PrimarySmtpAddress -LinkType member) -linktype subscriber
    set-unifiedgroup -identity $class.PrimarySmtpAddress -AutoSubscribeNewMembers:$True
}

You need to rerun it when class memberships change (or at least you did last year). There's probably a way more efficient way of doing that.