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Channel Meeting | Optional Attendees Being Added
ThereseSolimeno Thanks, yes, I'd seen that post in my research. Since this is a new (created within the last couple of months) Team, the AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents concept did not seem to apply. Additionally, all of the members were added to the Team at the time of Team creation. The fact that only about 6-7 out of 100 pop up on the invitations (consistently), means that the alwayssubscribememberstocalendarevents situation didn't apply. So while that post makes sense, it does not seem applicable to my case.
As this question has been circulating for years now (managing invitees on Channel-initiated meetings), my hope was that there were new answers out there.
@ThereseSolimeno We've figured out the situation in our location. In each case for which the recipient was "automatically" being added as optional to the invite, they were able to change the following setting.
1. They navigate to the 'Conversations' section of the Team's associated Sharepoint site.
2. This brought them to an Outlook for Office 365 URL.
3. When choosing '...' and Settings, they could make the change depicted in the picture.
From that point forward, they are no longer automatically added to Channel-initiated meetings for the team. This solves a big problem for us.