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Inviting Specific People to Channel Meetings (NOT the whole Team)
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I found this link which may help:
https://c5insight.com/how-to-send-invites-to-the-right-attendees-in-teams-channel-meetings/
Thank you DavidGC2195 for providing the excellent post by C5 Insight (How to Send Invites to the Right Attendees in Teams Channel Meetings - C5 Insight).
Now we know why old teams that are connected to a Microsoft 365 group may send invites to all members of the team for channel events even if not included as invitees.
So in my view, now it's easy to setup and definitely not a bug.This is how I have it setup:
- From the admin center, I make sure that all Microsoft 365 group connected teams have that setting disabled, specially the old ones.
- In Admin Center go to Teams&Groups / Active Teams&Groups
- Select a specific group.
- Click on the Settings tab.
- Disable the "Send copies of team email and events to team member inboxes"
- When creating a channel event, explain your users that
- By default no one gets invited to a channel meeting unless they are added as invitees.
- If they'd like to invite all team members, they can enable the "Send personal invites" checkbox as shown below. They can also include other users (internal or external) as invitees.
This works for me.
I hope it helps.
Josu
Josu,
I just want to make sure that I understand this! If I want to schedule a meeting from a channel, but not send the meeting invite to everyone, then I need to turn off the "send copies of teams emails and events to team members' inboxes"...but if I do that, doesn't that also invalidate the team email function? Meaning, that if I want the ability to only invite specific people to certain meetings, then I have to turn off the function that allows the team to receive emails sent to the group email?
Is there any way to have both? I know the members can specifically visit the group email inbox, but it's not wise to rely on their doing than when they have so much else to be managing.
- From the admin center, I make sure that all Microsoft 365 group connected teams have that setting disabled, specially the old ones.
- Now that's the missing informations that nobody could figure out. Why it was working on some teams and not others. And where to fix that stupid behaviour. Thanks DavidGC2195 for the link.
- Still, it is not a great setup, a better more transparent and intuitive solution would be better
