Forum Discussion
Create a meeting in a 365-Group calendar without inviting the whole team? Question and critic!
MicrosoftHi Daniel,
There's currently two types of calendar scenarios that your group in Outlook supports:
- Appointments: Open the group calendar, and select "New appointment." The appointment you create will only live in the group calendar--no invitations are sent.
- Meetings: Invite a group (from your calendar or from the group calendar), members will receive an invitation in their inbox, unless they explicitly opted out of receiving meeting invitations from the group. If you invite anyone explicitly, the group will also be sent a meeting
However, we're actively looking at a third scenario, which seems to be exactly what you're looking for:
- "Brownbag": Meeting invitations are sent only to folks explictly addressed. A lunctime brownbag requires a presenter to attend, and other folks on the team are free go to the group calendar and add it to their own personal calendar. In your scenario, you would address the event to the employee and the customer.
At this time, I don't have any concrete timelines to share, but it is an active investigation!
Any updates on " Brownbag"?
- Ethan Li
ElenaBuliga--it's an active work in progress. Stay tuned on the feature @ Microsoft 365 Roadmap and here at Tech Community.
Ethan Linow if it were possible, with that Brownbag update, to make the group the sender of the invitation, that this would be exactly what we needed. Could be a checkbox like "send as group", when creating the Skype-Meeting. It's always nice for the invited person to see a sender like events@contoso.com instead of unknown.person@contoso.com.
- Ethan Li
DanielNiccoli -- we aren't changing anything else with this specific update. Right now, to my knowledge, when you create a meeting and sent it to invitees directly on the group calendar (versus your own inbox), they should be from "Daniel Niccoli on behalf of My Group Name". Is this what you're seeing?
