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skb5525
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Jan 22, 2021

Viewing channel calendars in Outlook

Hello,   Is there a method by which our organization can view individual as well as a combined view of Teams channel calendars in Outlook?   In other words, we'd like to be able to see our own pe...
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adam deltinger
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Jan 22, 2021
A channel calendar is really not a calendar of it's own but a filtered calendar based on the Group calendar that is created for every team. This can be added to Outlook, but by default hidden. you need to use Powershell to make this group calendar visible in outlook. And remeber this one will show events created in all channels of the team.The channel calender which you can add as a tab just use this calender and a filter to just shoe the events of that channel..
Here's a guide to what you need to do:

Connect to Exchange Powershell module and run the following command:
Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity MyTeam -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$False

An example guide here:

https://olafd.wordpress.com/2018/10/13/make-microsoft-teams-team-visible-in-outlook/

Official doc:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-unifiedgroup?view=exchange-ps

Adam
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    TomaszQ94
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    Dec 09, 2022

    adam deltinger 

     

    Since I am a dummy, could you please tell me what should be changed in this code? name of team i suppose should be given in "", but which one is it exactly? The one displeied in MS Teams ad Channel name? 

    In this intial code to run connection to exchange - anything to be changed or just executed?

     

    Thanks so much in advance!

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    mlobrien
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    Nov 01, 2022

    adam deltinger skb5525 Can you advise that once the Powershell script ran and you could see the channel calendar in Outlook...did it allow you to add an event in the Outlook version and does it appear on the Teams calendar? Is it a two-way sync?

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    skb5525
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    Jan 29, 2021

    adam deltinger OK, we went ahead and made the Powershell tweak.  The downside I see now is that all of the team events are now in my default Outlook calendar. I was hoping that they would only appear in its own group calendar, keeping my personal calendar clean of the team events.

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      adam deltinger
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      Jan 29, 2021
      They shouldn’t be! Check if you have the calendar overlapsed! Uncheck the group calendar in the left rail
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        skb5525
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        Jan 29, 2021

        adam deltinger It seems that Outlook doesn't understand the granularity of channels. I just get a Group in Outlook representing the Team that we did the Powershell tweak for. No way to break out the individual channels into different calendars.

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    skb5525
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    Jan 22, 2021

    adam deltinger 

     

    Thanks very much. Don't think I want to have people mess with Powershell.

     

    I'm wondering if I could create a new Sharepoint calendar for each channel and link it via a new tab in the channel. Then people could choose to connect the calendar to Outlook to see that specific calendar. At least seems doable in theory.

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      adam deltinger
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      Jan 22, 2021
      That's one way of doing it. Although, keep in mind that setting this in powershell once per team will make it visible in Outlook for all members of that team

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