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Llywelyn Morgan's avatar
Llywelyn Morgan
Iron Contributor
Oct 10, 2016

outlook groups not showing in outlook 2016

Hi

 

Our Outlook Groups (email and Classroom) are not available on the left hand menu of Outlook 2016. Neither do they show as a selectable option on the Outlook 2016 calendar.

 

Does anyone know how to display them? I've gone through all settings but can't find it.

 

Thanks

    • GRoetman's avatar
      GRoetman
      Copper Contributor

      Thanks for this answer. My question is, why do you have to be in cache mode to see the group in O365?


      Victor_Ungureanu wrote:
      Make sure your Outlook profile is set to use cached mode.

       

      • Victor_Ungureanu's avatar
        Victor_Ungureanu
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        I'll tell you what I think, but this is just my assumption.

        Such a group might have hundreds of members and it would be very resource intensive to have so many users accessing the group in online mode and having to read from the server all the contents of the group every time.
  • Brad West's avatar
    Brad West
    Brass Contributor

    We just ran into this issue as well with a few users. The Group has to be added to their Favorites in Outlook and then it will show up under their "My Calendars".

      • Brad West's avatar
        Brad West
        Brass Contributor

        I apologize.  I misunderstood and thought you were referring to an issue where the group calendar did not display.  Your issue is larger than that.  

      • Ian Moran's avatar
        Ian Moran
        Steel Contributor

        ISTR Outlook Groups will not display in Outlook 2016 if using Exchange Hybrid. All to do with the autodiscover record still pointing to an internal Exchange Server

  • Luca Seeberger's avatar
    Luca Seeberger
    Copper Contributor

    Our problem is now that manually created "Calendar Groups" show up in Outlook 2016 as "empty" after the Mailbox Migration to O365 (currently Exchange Hybrid mode). Meaning that the Group shows, but the added calendars within that group do not show.

     

    Funny enough the Calendar Groups DO show up in OWA including all the added calendars, so they must have been migrated successfully, just when creating a new Outlook Profile for the migrated users, only the Calendar Groups show up, but not the actual added calendars within that group, they only show in OWA. Any ideas?

    • Jack Edbom's avatar
      Jack Edbom
      Copper Contributor

      I have been investigating the same issue, since i can not see any reply since august i thought i share what solved it for  me. 

       

      First you have to use cached mode not online, i am guessing it has to do something with what Victor Ungureanu said about several hundreds of users in a group. 

      ANYHOW.. i did switch to cached mode.. still no groups.. UNTIL you switch to folder view instead of inbox.

       

       

       

      it does not state anywhere that you have to do that..  so it might be an easy miss. 

      //J

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