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Ravin Sachdeva's avatar
Ravin Sachdeva
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Jan 26, 2017

Enhancements to O365 Groups Calendar in Outlook - Never miss an event sent to a group.

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  • Krish Gali's avatar
    Krish Gali
    Jan 26, 2017

    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?

Rick Talbot's avatar
Rick Talbot
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Hello,

Has there been any progress on the ability to set up a calendar that does not invite everone on the team? Groups is absolutely unusable for things like vacation calendars because of the notifications it insists on sending. Most large businesses use Outlook desktop, not the web site.

Krish Gali's avatar
Krish Gali
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Jul 14, 2017

Hi Rick, our goal is to ship "add appointments" feature in Outlook desktop in the July build. Based on which channel your organization uses, you will see this feature available based on that schedule. 

  • Stephen Mitschke's avatar
    Stephen Mitschke
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    Jul 24, 2017
    This is great to hear. I see that July updates are starting to roll out to insiders, and I'm eager to begin testing. Can you give us a hint on what to expect from the updated user interface? i.e. will there be a similar "send an invitation to the group" check box like the web-based outlook?
    • Krish Gali's avatar
      Krish Gali
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      Aug 10, 2017

      Hi Stephen,

      For users, they can double click on a specific time on the group calendar, or right click on a time, or with the group calendar selected/open and select "Add an appointment" (right click options or ribbon). In the bottom of the appointment form, they would see the destination that appointment will get saved into.

      I will follow up once we know schedule of this flight rollout.  

      Thanks,

      Krish

      • Parker Jardine's avatar
        Parker Jardine
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        Aug 31, 2017

        We are running outlook 2016 enterprise. I hope this feature will be available for this version and not just the Office 365 version of Office. And if so, can you tell us what KB is applicable for this feature? Thanks Krish!

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