Remove the Feedback Button from #SharePoint #office365

Last week I presented a webinar for Wortell about the new announcements in Microsoft 365. One of the questions that a user asked me was about removing the Feedback Button. I was wondering if it was possible and if it is possible why you would want the remove it for your users.

I found it is possible and will add the code to do it later in this blog. But first back to the question why would you do this. If you know the feedback which is given is directly going to Microsoft Uservoice. This makes it possible to hear the real comments of users that daily use Microsoft Products. So please be aware that if you remove the button it will affect your users.

Other versions that I have seen lately is that the Feedback link is changed by a custom extension where you can set the link to anything. This could be an option to do when you really want to have the feedback yourself. Take a look at the PnP starter kit for this one.

So back to how to remove it. To remove it you need a piece of PowerShell which makes it possible to connect to the tenant:

$username = "admin@contoso.sharepoint.com"
$password = "password"
$cred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $userName, $(convertto-securestring $Password -asplaintext -force)
Connect-SPOService -Url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com/ -Credential $cred
#removes the feedback button
set-SPOTenant -UserVoiceForFeedbackEnabled $false