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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?
Ethan Li thanks for the answer. When sending an invitation to the group mailbox or creating a new event it is only placed in the group calendar and is not showing in every individuals mailbox. That is only the case if you follow the mailbox and accept the appointment. Maybe you can share further instructions how that should work? The group calender also can't be viewed on the mobile version of Outlook, why is that not working? If I go to groups there and click calendar I just see my own. Also it is not possible to set granular permissions like for other exchange calendar, if someone needs more rights it requires an owner who is the owner of all the group content all at once which should not be the case. Hope you can help on those topics. Thank you.
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When sending an invitation to the group mailbox, it will show in group mailbox as well as members' inboxes, if they are following group events. However, one can also place appointments directly on the group calendar, like personal appointments, do not result in an invitation sent.
All group members and owners can edit the group calendar freely.
On Outlook for iOS and Android, you can view group events on the group card. We're working on getting the group calendar on to the calendar surface.
I'll chime in here to echo a request many others have made. PLEASE give a way to turn off Meeting forwarding at the Group level. For large Groups, attempting to get all users in the group to go into the Outlook webapp and go to setting to unsubscribe is not a scaleable solution.
We use a workflow where to share out-of-office information, users will put a meeting on their own calendar, then add the Group calendars invitees to the meeting in order to populate those groups. Trying to get all users to individually turn off their subscriptions is very difficult and error prone. This is really something that should be able to be set for the whole group in one place.
- bgeddes
The new Outlook on the web now gives a option to enable/disable messages to all members.Ingrid Schiele I would love to know where that is - I haven't been able to find that setting. Can you point me in the right direction?
