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Former Employee

Mar 22, 2017

'Invite to Join' feature launched to invite and add members to Office 365 Groups

We have launched a new feature for groups 'Invite to Join', on Outlook on Web. This feature allows group members to create an invite link for any group they are part of in order to share with oth...

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bart_vermeersch

Steel Contributor

Oct 02, 2017

Hello, is this feature general available to all users already?

As a first release user, this feature is available to me via Outlook Online (not yet Outlook desktop).

But we have a service desk call from one of our users: When he as an owner of a private group, receives and opens a request to join, he lands on the members overview page without seeing any invites to approve.

Bart

Vijay Nelson

Former Employee

Oct 04, 2017

Bart,

Yes the 'Invite to Join' feature is available to all users since earlier this year. The feature is avaible only in Outlook Web now. We are working on building the functionality in Outlook Desktop.

Regarding the sceanrio you have mentioned below, this feature is to invite non-members to a group. Members invited can click this link and the join request will be sent to owners in case of private group. I am not sure why an existing member/owner is clicking on the invite link? Can you pls clarify?

Owners can approve the member using the join emails he receives when non-members click on this link to join.