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Add channel to a meeting series
Hi folks,
maybe I’m just to stupid but maybe one of you came across the same issue:
I’ve created a meeting series (with Option to attend via Teams) via Outlook Plugin. In the meantime I’ve created a channel for the meeting subject. I would now like to assign this new channel to the existing meeting series without cancelling the meeting and setting up a new one.
Any ideas?
Thx
Talisa
We'd prefer to have the meetings be part of a channel, so that the recordings and interaction are stored in the channel. However, what is the best practice to make sure attendees are aware of the meeting?
Does it send an Outlook calendar invite? If it is a recurring meeting, and the meeting time changes, can it update the Outlook calendar? It isn't clear how to invite all channel members without individually selecting each person.
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There is a link for the channel which can be copied to the meeting request. The meeting request with this additional participant can be updated. This meeting will now show up in the channel.
ashvinsrinivas - Would you please provide the specific instructions for your comment. Exactly where do you paste/attach the Channel link?
I've found how to create the series from inside the channel, but not how to link an existing series to an existing Channel.
I'm having issues with my Outlook calendar and Teams in general (I can't see my calendar in Teams), but I do have the button to add a New Meeting.
When I click + New Meeting, I see the ability to add a Channel... however, only standar channels (accessible to everyone on the team) are listed, not private channels (accessible only to a specific group of people within the team). I wondered if this is what everyone else has as capabilities or if it's because of my Outlook issues?
Also - are we saying that a meeting that has already happened in Teams, with it's notes and such, cannot be moved to a channel? Right now, I have such a meeting that is in the Chat tab. I can't assign a Channel to that Chat/Meeting?
- By the way, I would recommend you to use the Calendar App in Teams to schedule Teams meeetings
- Hi!
It doesnt work that way! There’s two types of meetings: a “normal” teams meeting which means it’s not connected to any team/channel which also makes it possible to invite any address! This is what happens when you use the outlook addin.
A channel meeting is connected to a channel and it’s only possible to have members of that team joining!
If all attendees are members of that team, setup a reoccurring channel meeting insteadadam deltinger I understand that this is not how teams works, but it would be nice to have a solution to this problem, which is likely to be a common one, that doesn't involve time travel.
We'd prefer to have the meetings be part of a channel, so that the recordings and interaction are stored in the channel. However, what is the best practice to make sure attendees are aware of the meeting?
Does it send an Outlook calendar invite? If it is a recurring meeting, and the meeting time changes, can it update the Outlook calendar? It isn't clear how to invite all channel members without individually selecting each person.
yep this is exactly the point:
When you setup a recurring meeting within the channel every channel member needs to actively monitor the channel and needs to push the meeting into the calendar.
So I‘m now proceeding the way to Adam provided:
Setting up the meeting completely in Outlook and copy the channel link into it. This works fine for me.
Maybe a feature request for an upcoming Outlook Plugin?
