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Scheduling Meetings in Private Channels
Hi,
Can anyone confirm this this works, or indeed doesn't? I can't seem to schedule meetings into Private Channels, but can't find if this should actually work.
Thanks,
- Hi sp-jmglade
Currently, you can't schedule meetings in private channels.
As stated in the article
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/private-channels
We're continually adding capabilities to private channels so check back for the most up-to-date information regarding apps, channel meetings, and scaling private channels for large teams
You can however do meet now's in private channels
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
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Yes, there is a way to schedule meetings to private channels. I will put the steps below:
Step 1.
Get the email address of the channel. You can do this by going to the channel and clicking on "more options" to get the email of the channel.Step 2.
Go to outlook calendar and create a new event. Put the title of the meeting and the next is to paste the email address of the channel you got from step 1.Step 3.
Check your schedule day and timeStep 4.
From the drop down, Select "Teams Meeting"Step 5.
Save and you are done. You should see the link in the private channel- Yes, the meeting is created but any conversation that happens while meeting is kept in "Chat" instead of in "Channel". The whole point (for me) of having a meeting in the channel is to keep all conversation and history, files etc etc in the channel
I've tried this but the email does not send the invite to the participants of the private channel, and only creates the invite in my own calendar.
I'm not sure if this is a limitation based on how our internal IT guys have configured Teams for use.
- This looks good in as a workaround - I will give this a try and reply back once I can confirm its works flawlessly.
Microsoft, please get this done ASAP.
It is a no brainer feature that needs immediate implementation.
Clear value for work and school teams and likely for others.
- Another vote for this feature. Also you can't add planner to private channels. Why all doesn't private channels have the same functionality of public channels??
You can right click the private channel and choose "Get email address". the email address of your private channel will appear and click Copy button. After that, go to teams calendar in the right side of the app and schedule meeting as usual, and paste the email address into the "required attendees" field. After sending, this meeting will now appear in that private channel's posts, in your teams calendar and in your outlook calendar. I hope this helps. 🙂
ChinCharmin thank you, it works. However, the team members in the private channel can't find the meeting in their teams calendar.
This is absolutely needed... such a key feature to be able to separate your team into smaller pieces and schedule meetings directly with them... please make this change soon!...
sp-jmgladeEssentially, we're asking for meetings for sub-teams of the main team. If only we could define sub-teams, we could then have channels on those.
the uservoice is here sp-jmglade
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/40337650-scheduled-meetings-for-private-channels
I really can't understand why this isn't a thing. It's a very basic feature that should be available.
Please MS can you get this rolled out ASAP.
Cheers
Hello dizlet,
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Can you please update the link?
Private Channels in Teams is indeed a cool feature, especially for effective collaboration of higher management and strategic groups working on sensitive information and data.
It is, however, sad to see a very basic yet important feature like meeting setup missing.It's been more than couple of years since first concern was raised, but I see the issue hasn't progressed much. I tried to cast my vote in uservoice, but seems the link no more exists.
I would greatly appreciated if this feature is ranked top of the backlog and its implementation expedited.
Will be hopefully watching this thread for the good news! 🙂
Thanks!
- Could not agree more. The feature is very important and has been requested for a long time, it would be great to see it live soon! Any new updates on whether it's coming up or not would also be appreciated.
dizlet Also, Teams released Breakrooms in Preview. But they only added it for private meetings. This makes it harder to use with a class that are part of a channel.
+1 for me. I really need this feature.
sp-jmglade This video contains a work around for scheduling meetings in private channels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWfb5eHeo_Q
thisismikekane_neu thanks works really well
- Second this - I only got round to seeing this as I am clearing out the mailbox from old TC notifications. I have been using this the last few weeks. It's also a great solution for an emergency action when Live Events fail too. Always good to keep this one in the pocket 😄
Best, Chris
