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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
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.- If You can't create meeting within team group it is really no point of creating any.... and with big groups like some I have over 100 people this realy an issue !!
I am finding the same issue as many on this thread. Illogical sequence for getting invites sent to team members. It simply doesn't make sense that you need to use an admin function to enable invites to be sent directly to users with access to the channel. Most companies have an ecosystem where people are bringing 'Teams' world together with Outlook world and the two need to mesh.
This needs to be resolved: Having a robust system for ensuring communication about Team meetings is a prerequisite for any collaborative platform. It undermines the whole point of the platform.
David_Tilbrook I agree and I've got to say that a basic functionality of inviting a team to a meeting should not require lots of work arounds.
To add insult to injury, if I start typing an email address which I've used before in Outlook or Windows Mail it wil 'autocomplete'. Wht doesnt it do it in Teams?
I have been having to forward the invite from my Outlook once I create the meeting in Teams channel (since it sends the actual invite to me via email). However, this now makes my channel the actual organizer at that point and me simply the one forwarding the invite (see below). This cause issues if I need to update or monitor who is responding. I truly wish there was a way to add a channel when setting up the meeting through outlook. If ANYONE knows how to fix this PLEASE help 🙂 Jason_IT
