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Why are Group calendar invites retained in the mailbox?
We are piloting the use of a Group calendar to track employee time off requests in our department. When adding an event to the Group calendar, an invite is sent to the Group mailbox, as well as to e...
I have a similar question I think. Is there anyway to add something to O365 Group shared calendar and not to the person's calendar that created item? Instead of sending invite I would imagine just creating it directly in the calendar? Am I missing something? We want to use the calendar to track substitutes but not have items on personal calendars. We did it with Public Folder Calendar before and are trying to transition off.
FWIW, this was just posted on the Roadmap:
Outlook for Windows: Create appointments on Group calendarsItems added to a Group calendar will now act as Appointments by default, rather than Meetings. Appointments will appear on the calendar, but will not notifying all group members (i.e. send invites to their personal mailboxes). The user will have the option during event creation to check a box to notify the group members.
