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BCC in meeting invite Outlook 16.65
I am an independent advisor answering questions about Outlook.
As shown in the image below, you must click on the Optional button to Invite Optional Attendees (IOA). IOA is used as the Carbon Copied (CC), and their names are listed in the invite.
The Location field is the Resource field. You can no longer add people's names in this area.
Now for your BCC question. Once the meeting invite is created. As the meeting organizer, you can Forward the email message to others as follows:
- Navigate to the Sent Folder
- Open Meeting Invite Email Message
- Any names in the To Field is a required invitee to the meeting
or CC Field is an optional invitee. (Again, these names will appear in the calendar invite.) - Any names in the Email BCC will not appear on the invite, but the meeting details are provided in the body of the message.
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/Teresa
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CC will mark those attendees as option but won't hide their email. Forwarding an invite certainly hides the emails but makes it less likely they RSVP or attend. You can instead create separate calendar invites for each attendee. This way each recipient will get a calendar invite that they can add to their calendar, includes the link to join, lets them indicate whether they will attend and hides the emails of other participants. There are also solutions like salepager that let you send BCC outlook invites. Alternatively, you can spin something up yourself using APIs or power automate.