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Meetings - participants that declined are still being notified of meeting chat messages
We're facing a quite annoying problem with Teams meetings that causes all participants that were invited - irrespective of their response (unknown, decline, tentative) - to be brought into the meetin...
They are releasing an update soon that will mute meeting chats unless you join the meeting. This will help alleviate this, but longer term they will hopefully work with the Outlook Team to fire off an update to the meeting when a decline happens as it doesn't now.
But as of today there is nothing you can do.
But as of today there is nothing you can do.
POV: Nearly 3 years later and it's still happening....did I miss an update to stop this? ChrisWebbTech
No. It is still a problem; only MS pulled an IBM. It was declared a feature.
The problem is a Teams Channel was named as a participant so anyone that is a member of the Channel continues to get the chat / notices. Technically, it is considered User Error. The Channel should not be a participant of the meeting. And the only one that can remove the Channel is the organizer of the meeting, who wanted the channel to participate.
Q: How many IBM engineers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They change the definition of darkness and issue it as an upgrade.
What a joke.... it is so frustrating to hear this continues. Thank you for the update Ray_Watters
- Amazing. Thank you for the info!
- I've thought about this a bit... workarounds-wise but haven't tested.
So if it's a large format meeting, like a town hall with all staff- the meeting chat could be disabled when it is set up, in the meeting options and the Q&A app could be used.
