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How can I bulk invite the team to a meeting?
- That's fair enough - and I 100% agree with you - but the initial question to this particularly thread was - How can I send a bulk invitation to a meeting without giving every single name? ideally the meeting would appear in each outlook kalender.
The answer is to create a Team built of an Office 365 group created in Outlook. If they havent done this, then one will need to be created, any content moved and the legacy Team deleted.
Apologies - not being short, just that there is a solution to what they want. I know that 99% of Teams are created through Teams. I may investigate to see if there is any setting that can just enable this for an Office 365 group created via Teams
Best, Chris
Diddy974 I agree with the solution ChrisHoardMVP proposed. I was taken aback a bit when it was stated that this does not work (no need to add attendees) since it has always been my experience that that is the way Teams work. So I tested it to make sure I did not imagine things and it works perfectly. If you do not specify any attendees when you schedule a meeting from Teams all the members of the team will get a meeting invite. Obviously it must be a Channel meeting i.e. there must be a valid entry in the Channel input.
This doesn't seem to be working for me.
When I add a channel, it only sends formal invite to me. It posts to the channel but does not formally invite (or appear in) outlook calendars for other members of the channel/team.
My steps:
Create meeting in teams, populate Channel and leave all other required/optional attendee fields blank.
The only team member that gets formally invited this way is me!?
karim7x Did you created the Office 365 Group in Outlook first and after that made it a team? If not you won't get the emails.
I am also having an issue with the invites going out as email. How do I set my Team up in 365 first to insure this works as you mentioned? ParLinderoth
- FRUSTRATING for me too. I want to schedule a meeting for the entire team, but it won't send an invite via outlook / calendar. It just puts it in the team general list, meaning very few people would see it.
When you schedule inside teams, it does see existing outlook distribution lists, but not "TEAMS" specific items. If you copy / paste an team name, for instance ER@valleyhospital.com into the dialog, and teams doesn't recognize it, even though it is the global distribution list, and you can send this list an Email w outlook, nobody will get an invite.
I think this must be a BUG that MS teams devs should fix.
karim7x That is weird. I also tested it with external members (guests) and even they get the invite without me having to specify them in the invite if they are team members. The only thing I can think of is that it is related to how your tenant is set up, maybe there is a configuration parameter that needs to be set but I know too little about that to really say.
