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MicrosoftEnhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.
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?
MicrosoftHi hoyty76, Greg Maschman - can you please help me understand your workflow steps?
Currently, these are the ways in which you can create an appointment on a group calendar in Outlook Dekstop (Win 32 client):
1. Go to the Group shared space for a group and from the ribbon select New Items -> Appointment. A new appointment compose form will open. Just add the details and click on Save & Close.
2. Visit the Group shared space for the group and select Calendar from the ribbon. Your Outlook will switch to the Calendar module. Make sure the Group calendar is selected in the left nav and you see the Group calendar in your view. On the Group calendar, right click on the time you want to use and click New Appointment. The appointment creation form will open and just add the details and click on Save & Close.
3. Follow the same steps in #2 and double click on the time/day you want to set the appointment for. The appointment creation form will open and just add the details and click on Save & Close.
Please confirm if you're not able to see the workflows described above.
Hope this clarifies.
We are Outlook 2016 users previously with an exchange server but recently changed to O365 a couple of months ago. We are starting to create groups instead of recreating public folder calendars and are receiving complaints about the individual meeting invitations for additions to our group time off calendar using Outlook 2016 (doctor appointments, vacation, etc.). When I right click on the group calendar within Outlook 2016 and select New Appointment, a meeting form is displayed and not an appointment form. I know this is an old conversation but this still seems to be an issue. How can we get the appointment form to display in Outlook 2016 for the group calendar when we don't want to send meeting invitations to each group member? Please respond. Thanks.
I did get Outlook 2016 updated to 16.0.5017.100 MSO (16.0.4493.1002) 64-bit and still experiencing the same result. Right clicking on O35 group calendar and select New Appointment displays a Meeting form.
To add to my previous post, this is the version showing in About Outlook
Microsoft Outlook 2016 MSO (16.0.4266.1001) 64-bit
- Ravin Sachdeva
DHicks33458, Ethan Li can you help here? Thanks!