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Ravin Sachdeva's avatar
Ravin Sachdeva
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Jan 26, 2017

Enhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.

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  • Krish Gali's avatar
    Krish Gali
    Jan 26, 2017

    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?

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Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Jan 27, 2017
No no no no no no no

Not sure where you are getting feedback from, our users hate this.

On the contrary, they are begging for a way to just add appointments (with no notification). A common use case is adding the fact that a particular Group member will be out for 3 days because of a surgery. They don't want to INVITE everyone to their surgery, they just want to post it with no notification.

You need to just GIVE the user the option up front to decide whether to send it only to the group or to the group and individuals.
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Greg Maschman
Brass Contributor
Apr 10, 2017

One more vote for allowing to NOT send an invite in Outlook 2016 desktop app!!!!  Please make this update so I can have our group start adding to our group calendar without sending invites.  We all live in Outlook 2016 desktop!!!  Thanks for listening to all this feedback!!

  • Krish Gali's avatar
    Krish Gali
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    Apr 10, 2017

    Thanks for all the feedback on this thread. We have prioritized the work to "create an appointment" on the group calendar for this quarter in Outlook. I will inform this conversation when it is ready to be tried out. 

    • Rick Talbot's avatar
      Rick Talbot
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 12, 2017

      Hello,

      Has there been any progress on the ability to set up a calendar that does not invite everone on the team? Groups is absolutely unusable for things like vacation calendars because of the notifications it insists on sending. Most large businesses use Outlook desktop, not the web site.

      • sjarkkaffe's avatar
        sjarkkaffe
        Copper Contributor
        Jun 22, 2023
        Would really like the same: We tried to make an holiday/away calendar group to have easy overview ove staff, but every time someone marks as away by inviting this calendar, everybody in the company is invited, and then tenfolds of complaint emails 🤦 – we need to be able to NOT invite all members of a group, only the group calendar!

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