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amybundens
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Mar 21, 2020
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Teams Calendar - please show my categories/colors from Outlook Exchange

I use categories/colors heavily on my Outlook calendar so I can quickly and easily tell what type of meeting it is (status, client, sales, personal, etc.). I am often double-booked and this makes it ...
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  • ChrisHoardMVP's avatar
    ChrisHoardMVP
    Sep 03, 2023

    Hi Marty_Joplin 

     

    See here

     

    Schedule a meeting in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support

     

    Section on categorising meetings. As noted in the article:

     

    • At this time, category names and colors can only be edited from Outlook.

    • For recurring meetings, categories can only be applied to the series, not an individual occurrence.

    • Currently, categories can't be applied to channel meetings

    Hope that helps answer your question. It is client side, and not something which is enabled in the Microsoft Teams admin centre

     

    Best, Chris

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Marty_Joplin
Copper Contributor
Aug 16, 2023

Luca_Bovo 

 

Do we have to enable a feature in Teams admin to be able to see colors and categories in the Teams calendar?

 

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ChrisHoardMVP
MVP
Sep 03, 2023

Hi Marty_Joplin 

 

See here

 

Schedule a meeting in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Support

 

Section on categorising meetings. As noted in the article:

 

  • At this time, category names and colors can only be edited from Outlook.

  • For recurring meetings, categories can only be applied to the series, not an individual occurrence.

  • Currently, categories can't be applied to channel meetings

Hope that helps answer your question. It is client side, and not something which is enabled in the Microsoft Teams admin centre

 

Best, Chris

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