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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
Late to the party but I'll add to what others have said. Firstly this is very frustrating and I know MS is pushing users to stay in MS Teams but the facts is in most large companies email is still king.
1. A while back all this worked
2. Then MS decided to make the default to hide new groups created from MS Teams from Outlook. This has more impacts that just hiding. It impacts everything people here are commenting on. The important items.
The 2 options that work:
1. If it is a team already created then you will need to get your Excchange Admin to run the following powershell script to unhide it and make all the good things work again.
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity “Your team name goes here” -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$False
IMPORTANT: The updates can take from minutes to hours (as in a few coffees)
2. Ask your users if they will be needing this functionality. if they do then create the group from Outlook desktop or Outlook web.
2.1 Now go and create a new team and select to create from an existing O365 group
Magic - everything will now work as expected. From MS Teams you can go to any channel and create an invite. In the attendees simply type the group name and it will be available. You can also send emails, forward emails etc to this group name.
Final tip: How do I get the group email?
From your team open it in SharePoint. In SharePoint click the Team name and from there you can see the email address and even all the emails.