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Copper Contributor

Dec 08, 2020

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Cannot Effectively Manage Channel Meetings and Replies

As an admin, I should be able to restrict who can schedule meetings within channels, especially the General channel. I have a few Teams where only owners can post messages, but if a member schedu...

beenelliott
Dec 09, 2020
ChristianBergstrom Created these two UserVoice posts, if you or anyone else would like to help upvote.

Restrict members from scheduling meetings within certain Teams/Delete meeting info in chats:
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/42164251-restrict-members-from-scheduling-meetings-within-c

Add ability to schedule recurring meetings in Teams Private Channels:
https://office365.uservoice.com/forums/264636-general/suggestions/42164587-add-ability-to-schedule-recurring-meetings-in-team

beenelliott

Copper Contributor

Dec 08, 2020

ChristianBergstrom Thanks, I've looked through that, but I need this to be a policy only for this particular group, not global or per-user. Owners should still be able to schedule channel meetings, while members should be restricted and not allowed to. Any ideas?

ChristianBergstrom

Silver Contributor

Dec 08, 2020

Hi, well it’s a ”per-user” policy so it would need to be applied to the individuals in that particular team, owner excluded. But that also means that this policy will follow these individuals in all teams being unable to create channel meetings.

You can always put up a UV request or look if it’s already there https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/

beenelliott
Copper Contributor
Dec 09, 2020
ChristianBergstrom Yeah, that'd break critical functionality for the other Teams, so I can't do that. We tried the below PS script, which disables the members from writing to the calendar. They get an error, but the meeting info still pops up in the channel, oddly enough. These auto meeting info chats (I don't know what else to call them) cannot be deleted, even though our policy is set to allow Owners to delete sent messages. Which means members can then reply to that if they wanted to. This is just a mess.

Set-UnifiedGroup test@example.com -CalendarMemberReadOnly:$true
- ChristianBergstrom
  Silver Contributor
  Dec 09, 2020
  Hi, yeah that won’t work for channel meetings as a channels doesn’t have a mailbox/calendar per say.
  - beenelliott
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 09, 2020
    ChristianBergstrom So, there is no way to do what we need here, then... Infuriating.