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Ravin Sachdeva
Microsoft
MicrosoftEnhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.
Groups in Outlook is being used by millions of users worldwide to improve collaboration and be more productive working with a group of people – be it for project collaboration, organizational groups ...
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?
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!!
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.
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.
- 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!
Hi Rick, our goal is to ship "add appointments" feature in Outlook desktop in the July build. Based on which channel your organization uses, you will see this feature available based on that schedule.
- This is great to hear. I see that July updates are starting to roll out to insiders, and I'm eager to begin testing. Can you give us a hint on what to expect from the updated user interface? i.e. will there be a similar "send an invitation to the group" check box like the web-based outlook?
Wow! Great news!
Thank you very much, Krish Gali.
