Following Team Sites

Microsoft Office 365 Groups come with the ability to use the "Following" function.  We'll take a look at the two areas this is used and how it can help.

Email

Following an Email group means you will get email notifications in your own work email inbox.  If you Unfollow a group, you can still get to the emails in the Groups Inbox, however new email conversations will not appear in your OWN inbox. 

To follow a Group's email conversation in Outlook

 Click on the Group name under Groups from the navigation menu on the left.

In the top ribbon bar in Outlook, click on the Group Settings cog.

Ensure the "All emails and events" option is ticked.

To stop following a Group in Outlook.

Sometimes the conversations can get a bit noisy and clutter up the inbox.  To stop the group emails going into your inbox, click on Group Settings icon in Outlook and choose "No Emails or Events"

You can get someone's attention in a group email conversation, even if they're not following the group, by using the "@name"  mention.  In the body of the email, type "@" and the person's name, and the group email will go to their inbox, regardless if they're following the email group.

Sharepoint Team Site following

Sharepoint Team sites also have the option to Follow.  Following a Team site makes it easy to navigate to and save files into the Team document library.

To Follow a Sharepoing Team Site

Click on "Not Following" in the top right hand corner to change it to "Following"

 Now that Team site will show in Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel when saving a file.

It will also show as a quick link in your OneDrive library