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MicrosoftEnhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.
Ivan54 - It is unlikely since we are just beggining the rollout of this feature to have impacted what you are saying. Also, when a group event is created in O365 group, currently, only the users who have subscribed to messages from that group would get that in their Inbox and it would show up in their calendar. In other words, unless the calendar invite lands somewhere in the user mailbox, it wouldnt show up in their calendar. Is it possible that the members are subscribed to the messages and may have missed the invite or it went to another folder?
Hi All,
Thanks for your patience as this feature is rolling out to the current channel users. The minimum build must be 16.0.8429.1000, and the flighting is rolling this to the current channel and should be available in a week or so to everyone.
As previously pointed, currently you can see group calendars by default in the calendar module only for your favorite groups, or if you navigate to the group and open the group calendar through the ribbon. We are actively working on enabling all your groups in the calendar module in Outlook desktop and should be available in the coming months.
Thanks for all your feedback as we are making improvements to group calendars. If you can share the use cases you are currently or planning to use group calendars for, it will be great to know so we can use that input to build better ways to help you accomplish the tasks there.
Thanks,
Krish
Krish Gali My organization is now on 16.0.8431.2110 but I am still not seeing the feature that you say is being rolled out. Currently we have the users going to OWA to create events in the Group calendar so that they can uncheck the 'send a meeting invitation to group members'. This is not a smooth work around though and as we get more an more requests for these group calendars it is becoming more of a problem. I have found many threads online dealing with this topic and many people that want to be able to choose to not send an invite to all group members from the Outlook application instead of logging into OWA.
Should this not already be rolled out to all channels? It was several months ago when you said it was being rolled out and it was a prior version of Outlook than the one we are using.
As you can see in the screenshot I am providing, if you attempt to make an appointment (so that no one is invited and it is just added to the Group calendar) then outlook automatically makes it a meeting and adds the group and yourself to the To: field.
