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Ravin Sachdeva
Microsoft
Jan 26, 2017Enhancements 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 ...
- 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?
Krish Gali
Microsoft
Apr 10, 2017Thanks 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
Jul 12, 2017Copper Contributor
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.
- sjarkkaffeJun 22, 2023Copper ContributorWould 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!
- Krish GaliJul 14, 2017
Microsoft
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.
- Stephen MitschkeJul 24, 2017Copper ContributorThis 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?
- Krish GaliAug 10, 2017
Microsoft
Hi Stephen,
For users, they can double click on a specific time on the group calendar, or right click on a time, or with the group calendar selected/open and select "Add an appointment" (right click options or ribbon). In the bottom of the appointment form, they would see the destination that appointment will get saved into.
I will follow up once we know schedule of this flight rollout.
Thanks,
Krish