Limiting Team invitations to specific members

Dear Microsoft, Within our organization, the ability to limit teams invites is a must for meetings. When we create a meeting, without doing so, optional members are added to the teams meeting. You...

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VasilMichev

MVP

Jul 20, 2024

Channel meetings are open to any member of the channel/team, by design. But you do not have to create such a meeting, use the Calendar app (or Outlook) to create a "regular" meeting and invite only the required attendees. Optionally, you can prevent forwarding by toggling the corresponding setting under Response Options.

In any case, the best place to put suggestions like the above is over at the Feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/ad198462-1c1c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472

TomNowakAtkins

Copper Contributor

Aug 30, 2024

VasilMichev creating a "regular" meeting eliminates all the Teams channel functionality though. For instance, we won't be able to use the channel calendar to schedule smaller meetings that don't involve the whole team - that means that the meeting recording, the chat log, and other important info is not captured in our Team channel. The meeting also won't be visible to team members who weren't invited, which is not good - we want our entire team to see what meetings are going on without necessarily being invited to them.

All we want is the ability to schedule a meeting in the Teams channel calendar without inviting the entire team. This is clearly a bug and not a feature request - if it wasn't a bug, why do the channel calendars even have the ability to specify attendees? This field is useless as everyone in the Team receives the meeting invite regardless.

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Limiting Team invitations to specific members