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Hide email addresses in invite to external users
Hi,
Probably the simplest way to do this is to create the meeting in Outlook as a Teams meeting. This inserts a unique hyperlink in the calendar event ('Join Microsoft Teams Meeting'). Then you can send copy and paste the link into separate emails to the external and internal people or send one email with them all in the Bcc field.
The other way of doing it is to create the meeting in Outlook as a Teams meeting with just one of the attendees, it doesn't matter who. Send the invite as you normally would, then reopen the calendar event and click the Forward button (Ctrl+F). Enter the next attendee's email in the To field, but be sure to delete text in the email/calendar invite that details previous invite (this is the text beneath '-----Original Appointment-----'). Leave the message text that you want this attendee to see, along with the unique 'Join Microsoft Teams Meeting' hyperlink. Then repeat this for each attendee.
I've tested this last method with 3 separate private email accounts (hotmail, outlook and gmail) and neither one can see any of the other attendee's information either in the email they receive or the calendar event itself.
Hope that helps - please let me know.
Hi PhilHesketh ,
I can think of one way around it,
Create the meeting in Outlook as a Teams meeting, just add those external users in. Send it. Then add all the internal users. The copy of the meeting those 2 external users have will only show each other.
Be wary of updating the meeting, when you do that all invitees will be shown.
Thank you Andrew Hodges,
however I do not want the external users to see each other's email address.
Thanks
Create the teams meeting for all internal users, copy the join info and paste it into 2 separate invites for the external users.
You may want to check what is shown to everyone when the users join in the contact card though. Looks like there is no way to currently bcc attendees.
Andrew Hodges thanks for the link https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-Bcc-recipients-to-a-meeting-request-fcaff39e-7fcd-4a77-81e9-b609c57dadb1https://apkdrag.com/ it really helped me.
