Hello everyone,I stumbled upon a Teams meeting behaviour which I did not really pay attention to until I was asked.It is not an issue or problem, the question is, is the following behaviour by design? And did it change recently? We noticed the following:if someone gets a Microsoft Teams meeting invitation,the person declines the invitationthe person still gets access to the declined Teams meeting chat.the person who declined will see when the Teams meeting takes placesthe person who declined will see if someone who attends the meeting starts to chatthe person who declined will still be able to join the Teams meeting.Users are on Exchange Online and Teams-onlyUsers are internal ones Is this behaviour by design?And did this behaviour change recently or did I just not notice this before?Is this anyhow adjustable? Any configuration option for this? Yet, I haven't found one. BR,Erik

Try leaving the chat. You can also mute the meeting chat, so you are not constantly being notified.

MCT

Nov 10, 2022

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Chat is visible to users who declined a Teams meeting invitation

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon a Teams meeting behaviour which I did not really pay attention to until I was asked.

It is not an issue or problem, the question is, is the following behaviour by design? And did it change recently?

We noticed the following:

if someone gets a Microsoft Teams meeting invitation,
the person declines the invitation
the person still gets access to the declined Teams meeting chat.
the person who declined will see when the Teams meeting takes places
the person who declined will see if someone who attends the meeting starts to chat
the person who declined will still be able to join the Teams meeting.
Users are on Exchange Online and Teams-only
Users are internal ones

Is this behaviour by design?

And did this behaviour change recently or did I just not notice this before?

Is this anyhow adjustable? Any configuration option for this? Yet, I haven't found one.

BR,

Erik

StaceeFrane
Dec 18, 2022
Try leaving the chat. You can also mute the meeting chat, so you are not constantly being notified.

heatherbb
Copper Contributor
Mar 22, 2024
Microsoft, please give the meeting organizer the option to turn off people automatically seeing the chat for meetings they decline. We have optional department-wide meetings, and folks complain about seeing the chat after they decline. Yes, they can leave the chat if they wish, but this is 100+ people having to take an action AFTER they get unwanted chat notifications, rather than just giving the meeting organizer the option to click a box to turn off auto-enrollment in the chat for those who decline meetings. It's an ongoing complaint we hear and it would be GREAT if you could offer a fix!
Ed Woodrick
Iron Contributor
Nov 10, 2022
Just because I was busy and had to decline the meeting does not mean that I shouldn't be able to see the conversation or maybe watch the recording
- AWeinmann
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 11, 2022
  @erik365: We noticed this too.
  EWoodrick: OK, but if I'm invited to a meeting which I don't care about at all, then I don't want to bothered by the conversation chat.
  
  Is there really no way to adjust settings here?
  - Milkinho
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 24, 2023
    Yes, I'm also really annoyed at work by some meetings I definitely don't care about.
    If anyone from Microsoft reads this, it would be really appreciated if you provide with a slider in options for meeting not to pop-up when they are declined in calendar.