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Calendar invite to team when scheduling channel meeting - not possible despite new teams feature?
Hi everyone, we want to create a channel meeting, and still have everyone on the team notified and getting a calendar invite via email. Apparently this is a new feature that was recently added, a...
- Hi, besides what has already been said about the "subcribers list" it sounds as if you need to verify the Set-UnifiedGroup -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled
PowerShell may look intimidating but I'm sure you can figure it out together.
"The HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled parameter specifies whether the Microsoft 365 Group appears in the global address list (GAL) and other address lists in your organization. Valid values are:
$true: The Microsoft 365 Group is hidden from the GAL and other address lists. The group can still receive messages, but users can't search for or browse to the group in Outlook or Outlook on the web. Users also can't find the group by using the Discover option in Outlook on the web. For users that are members of the Microsoft 365 Group, the group will still appear in the navigation pane in Outlook and Outlook on the web if HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled property is NOT enabled.
$false: The Microsoft 365 Group is visible in the GAL and other address lists. This is the default value."
So, use the default which is $false
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps
Hi Christian, thank you, I did read this one - but it's from October 2020 and I thought something might have changed since then?
Our problem might go further than this article goes as well:
In the article, the team name appears under meeting attendees (See figure 1). For us, this does not happen, unless we a) manually put the Microsoft365 group on the Global Address List in the admin console, or b) create a Microsoft365 group first and THEN create a team.
If we go route b), then this also enables calendar invites to be sent out to everyone in this group once we enter the group name when we schedule a meeting on teams. However, this is obviously not an option for existing teams.
The article you link here suggests that for Teams created on Teams, members are not added to the subscriber list. I understand this could be the problem (which might still persist now, about 5 months later). However, I had the (possibly silly) hope that there is another problem in the communcation with Microsoft365 for us, as a created team does not appear under attendees unless manually put on the Global Address List. The (again, possibly silly) hope is that if we fix that, everything else will work as it should and send out calendar invites if a team/group is added to the attendees.
Does this train of thought make sense to you?
Would the code in your suggested article even work if there might be something different in the settings anyway, as teams we create do not appear as meeting attendees/are not on the GAL? No one in our organisation is particularly experienced with coding that goes beyond simple HTML so we are a little worried.
Our problem might go further than this article goes as well:
In the article, the team name appears under meeting attendees (See figure 1). For us, this does not happen, unless we a) manually put the Microsoft365 group on the Global Address List in the admin console, or b) create a Microsoft365 group first and THEN create a team.
If we go route b), then this also enables calendar invites to be sent out to everyone in this group once we enter the group name when we schedule a meeting on teams. However, this is obviously not an option for existing teams.
The article you link here suggests that for Teams created on Teams, members are not added to the subscriber list. I understand this could be the problem (which might still persist now, about 5 months later). However, I had the (possibly silly) hope that there is another problem in the communcation with Microsoft365 for us, as a created team does not appear under attendees unless manually put on the Global Address List. The (again, possibly silly) hope is that if we fix that, everything else will work as it should and send out calendar invites if a team/group is added to the attendees.
Does this train of thought make sense to you?
Would the code in your suggested article even work if there might be something different in the settings anyway, as teams we create do not appear as meeting attendees/are not on the GAL? No one in our organisation is particularly experienced with coding that goes beyond simple HTML so we are a little worried.
Hi, besides what has already been said about the "subcribers list" it sounds as if you need to verify the Set-UnifiedGroup -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled
PowerShell may look intimidating but I'm sure you can figure it out together.
"The HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled parameter specifies whether the Microsoft 365 Group appears in the global address list (GAL) and other address lists in your organization. Valid values are:
$true: The Microsoft 365 Group is hidden from the GAL and other address lists. The group can still receive messages, but users can't search for or browse to the group in Outlook or Outlook on the web. Users also can't find the group by using the Discover option in Outlook on the web. For users that are members of the Microsoft 365 Group, the group will still appear in the navigation pane in Outlook and Outlook on the web if HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled property is NOT enabled.
$false: The Microsoft 365 Group is visible in the GAL and other address lists. This is the default value."
So, use the default which is $false
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps
PowerShell may look intimidating but I'm sure you can figure it out together.
"The HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled parameter specifies whether the Microsoft 365 Group appears in the global address list (GAL) and other address lists in your organization. Valid values are:
$true: The Microsoft 365 Group is hidden from the GAL and other address lists. The group can still receive messages, but users can't search for or browse to the group in Outlook or Outlook on the web. Users also can't find the group by using the Discover option in Outlook on the web. For users that are members of the Microsoft 365 Group, the group will still appear in the navigation pane in Outlook and Outlook on the web if HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled property is NOT enabled.
$false: The Microsoft 365 Group is visible in the GAL and other address lists. This is the default value."
So, use the default which is $false
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps
- Hi Christian,
thank you! This does seem like the right step to take now, we will sit down and try this in combination with the code in the other link you posted earlier. Thank you for this quick, reassuring and helpful reply!! You just earned yourself some good karma 🙂
Best!
Kat- That's a very nice reply, thank you. Glad to assist! And don't bother about the "spam/phising" post. They are quite common in here unfortunately, but the moderators will probably delete the account soon.