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Hiding Office 365 Groups Created by Teams from Exchange Clients
It's been a while since I looked at this situation in detail. I went back and checked what's happening and document it in:
How to Hide Teams-Enabled Groups from Exchange Online
New teams created using Teams clients are hidden from Exchange Online, but those created using administrative interfaces are not. The result is potential confusion. in this post, we describe a PowerShell script to find any team-enabled Microsoft 365 Groups which are visible to Exchange and hide them. It’s easy scripting, but you need to run the script periodically to adjust new teams.
https://office365itpros.com/2021/07/08/how-hide-teams-enabled-groups-from-exchange-online/
Bit of a shame that there's no easy flick switch to make the M365 Group that arises as a result of a Team being created, to be visible in Exchange Clients, instead we're having to resort to PowerShell + admin rights.
The M365 Group Calendar itself is probably one of the most useful - as any Teams Channel Meeting scheduled within a Team will appear in that Team's M365 Group Calendar. However, for most teams created after 2018, this Group Calendar can't be used to schedule appointments which don't have a meeting associated with it.
Ironically there's also a Group Calendar web part in SharePoint Modern! Which now is only able to display Teams Meetings. The Event List that can be created as part of a SharePoint site is not useful in this regard, as it requires the end user to sync the "calendar" (which is a SharePoint list) to Outlook manually, and of course, it won't have all of their Teams Channel Meetings.
So whilst I appreciate others in here that are frustrated with the Groups surfacing in Exchange Clients, there's another batch of us who are frustrated at exactly the reverse 😂