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How to BCC guests to a Teams meeting?
garyang if you schedule the meeting using Outlook online, there is an option to "hide attendees" -- I use this when I am scheduling calendar reminders for our users to remember to save their data before an IT update. It's under Response options. (Note: this isn't available using the desktop app)
jhubbard Not any longer. I just sent a mtg our to 75 people. I had no idea they would all be able to see each others info. All hell is breaking loose now and everyone is upset. Thanks MS Teams !!!
Thanks for your tip! I tried what you meant. It works but it cannot invite a channel of team members. So suppose I have a Team channel with 20 people and I want to invite 10 one-time guests to this meeting. Using your Outlook hack will mean I have to copy and paste the 30 email addresses.
I tried to create the meeting on Outlook and then go into Teams to see if I can add the channel to it but it didn't work.
At the first place, why must it be so complicated to do something so simple?
I guess there isn't an elegant solution to a simple problem in a great piece of software. It is like finding a place for the coins in a Mercedes!
Thanks a lot! Stay safe, wherever you are!
garyang hope it helps
garyang so there are some foundational Teams understanding that is missing from your your last comment. In order to have a team channel with 20 you have to have set that up as a "private channel" I am not sure if this has been updated yet but last I saw channel meetings were not available for "private channels". In order invite anyone to a channel meeting they are suppose to be part of the overall team, however a new update is coming if it has not already where you can add "guests" to channel meetings.
Overall some of your last comment did not make sense to me.
Keep in mind in order to host a Teams Meeting does not mean you have to be associated with a particular team. You can always use Outlook and distro lists until more features are available. There is an update coming to Outlook where you can select a team and channel from outlook when creating a meeting I believe.
Sarah Gant Here's where I am with private channels -- private channels provision their own sharepoint page, which is not connected to the TEAM -- where as it could have been hooked to the team as permissions-based access if the person was trying to access content in SharePoint -- soooooo, why not have them created as a private TEAM? Private Channels currently (I say currently, bc MS updates things all the time) causes a hiccup in eDiscovery and records retention and all that good stuff -- that you wanted to protect with limiting the channel to just those people that can see the data to begin with....#notafanofprivatechannels
So I think what is needed is just a private meeting - not set in the channel - because if you invite the channel - everyone who is a member of the team gets the invite - and even if you comment "this meeting is just for me and Dave" everyone disregards that and starts joining -- so only host on the channel if you mean the entire TEAM.
