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MicrosoftEnhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.
Ivan54 - It is unlikely since we are just beggining the rollout of this feature to have impacted what you are saying. Also, when a group event is created in O365 group, currently, only the users who have subscribed to messages from that group would get that in their Inbox and it would show up in their calendar. In other words, unless the calendar invite lands somewhere in the user mailbox, it wouldnt show up in their calendar. Is it possible that the members are subscribed to the messages and may have missed the invite or it went to another folder?
Ravin SachdevaDue to this "feature" our users getting spammed with invitations for events they're not invited to and they're not amused about that....
The checkbox "send an invitation to the group" would be ok, but unfortunately it's getting activated and disabled when adding some people to the event :-((
Why is such a functionality implemented? Please remove this automatically activating and disabling. It's not user friendly at all.
MicrosoftGroups currently support 2 types of events - appointments and meetings.
1. Appointments - does not have any recipients and hence does not send an invite to all member's personal calendars. This only gets added to the Group Calendar surface and is most suitable as a out of office or vacation schedule.
2. meetings - as soon as you add a recipient it becomes a meeting and is sent to member's private calendars.
Each group member has the control to turn off events from a specific group. They can do so by modifying Group Email Settings.
In addition to that, we are working on a feature where you would be able to add select members from a group to the invite without sending the meeting invitation to all the members of that group. We will release more details on this feature soon.
Thanks Ravin Sachdeva for reply.
Each group member has the control to turn off events from a specific group. They can do so by modifying Group Email Settings.
I did not found any information where Group members can disable events. Can you give me more information, please? Currently we use Set-UnifiedGroup -SubscriptionEnabled -> false to disable the event notification.
We will release more details on this feature soon.
This would be great. Our users are really annoyed about this issue. The type appointment is for us not applicable as "out of office" or "vacation" has to appear in the concerning employees calender too. Therefore the event has at least one participant.
Regards,
Ingrid
- Ethan Li
Ingrid Schiele: To completely stop receiving group event invitations for a specific group:
- Go to the group in Outlook on the web, then click ⚙.
- Under Manage group email, select one of: Receive only replies to you or Don’t receive any group messages.
As Ravin mentioned, we are adding additional functionality into the group calendar; you will be able to add events to the group calendar and specific individual's calendars, while not needing to send an invite to the entire group. For reference, here's the Microsoft 365 Roadmap item for the feature.
