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New Teams Channel Calendar App Makes Channel Meetings Easier to Access
fransthomas Sounds like the Microsoft 365 group settings for subscribers is set to send information about new events to all group (team) members. See https://office365itpros.com/2020/03/31/invitations-teams-meetings/ and https://office365itpros.com/2020/10/21/update-teams-send-meeting-invitations-to-members/. If this is the case, you'd simply clear the subscriber list for the group and no one will receive invitations to channel meetings unless they are explicitly invited.
TonyRedmond I like the new Calendar app, but I want to be able to add an event and NOT have it send a meeting request via Outlook to everyone in the channel. In my case, there a few people on the team who I would add to the meeting invite, but it would be optional for the rest of the team. I would like them to know about it in Teams, so they can attend if interested - even add themselves to the meeting request if they desire - but I don't want a meeting request going to them in Outlook.
Based on this comment - "you'd simply clear the subscriber list for the group and no one will receive invitations to channel meetings unless they are explicitly invited." - it sounds like this is possible, but I don't understand how to do it (I'm not an Admin). If this is possible, can you provide information on how to enable it, which I can pass along to our Admins?
MMiller1388 Did you find the answer to this as I'm trying to figure out how to remove the subscribers from the list as well?
JAM313 Get an administrator to run the following command against your Microsoft Group
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "[Group Name]" -AlwaysSubscribeMembersToCalendarEvents:$false -UnifiedGroupWelcomeMessageEnabled:$false
AFter executing this command, any new member added to the team will not be subscribed to event notifications. This is what you want. Then you can remove each member previously added to the team and immediately add them back to the team. Now, none of those members will receive the notifications.
That leaves guest users. They will always receive meeting notifications. I have not yet figured out a way to suppress these notifications. I setup a Guest channel and a #guests tag to communicate with these members. I teach them to simply decline invitations from the team when they are listed as optional on the invitation. This has worked well and we have dramatically increased the number of channel meetings that we use.
The big advantage is keep a team aware of what is going on so that people can join meetings that they were not explicitly invited to. They may have something important to add, or something important to gain from attending.
