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Brett Wilms
Iron Contributor
Apr 23, 2021

Multiple "Name was invited to the meeting" in the Teams Meeting Chat

We held a large communication meeting using a Teams meeting yesterday. I saw a behavior in the Chat that I had not seen before. As people joined the meeting the following message appeared in the Chat for many of them (see attached image):

 

[last name, first name] was invited to the meeting.

 

There were over 200 instances of this in the meeting Chat and it had a way of "cluttering" the information. Does anyone know why this happened and how it can be avoided?

 

One thought I have is that the invite list was a mixture of direct invites and members of distribution lists. If someone joined after being invited from a distribution list, did it cause this behavior?

  • Brett Wilms's avatar
    Brett Wilms
    Iron Contributor
    We had one distribution list that was not expanded in the Outlook invite. It turns out that all of the names that appeared in the Chat as "[Name] was invited to the meeting" were members of this non-expanded distribution list. In the future, we will expand the Distribution List to eliminate these messages.
    • vskulav's avatar
      vskulav
      Copper Contributor

      Is there a way to turn-off these notifications?

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