Mar 15 2021 10:56 AM - edited Mar 16 2021 01:36 AM
Hi everyone,
we want to create a channel meeting, and still have everyone on the team notified and getting a calendar invite via email. Apparently this is a new feature that was recently added, as plenty of tutorials from early 2021 suggest: Just type in the name of your team under attendees, it will appear as a suggestion, and people should get an email notification.
However, this is not working for any team created directly on teams for us.
I will list below what we have tried to solve this:
- we put some teams on the Global address list. Now, when typing in the team name of a team on the address list, it does appear as a suggestion under attendees when scheduling a meeting. However, people in this team still do not get an email notification about the scheduled event/calendar invite.
- we created a test team through Office365, and then created a team building on that in Teams. Here, again the name pops up as a suggestion under attendees, and anyone on this team does receive a calendar invite via email. However, this seems to only work if we create the Office365 group first - which is not the case for our older teams.
To give some context: I know that there are ways to work around this (@ the team/channel and tell them them to manually add it to their calendar). However, our audience and members are of a very low income background and often not very digitally literate and struggle with doing this. We would like to find a solution that allows us to send an invite out to all team members by email, which they are more used to, without having to put them in as attendees individually.
I have seen some PowerShell solutions, but they were all a year old or at least 5 months old, and I think Teams has changed some bits since then. So, the question is: Is there anything in the settings that we are missing or anything else we can do? Again, the goal is to enable email calendar invites through adding the team's name to the meeting attendees.
Thanks a million!!
Kathrin
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@kmobius EXO (Exchange Online) and Exchange on-premise. I.e you have users with mailboxes in the cloud and others having their mailboxes locally, on-premise in your own data center/exchange servers.
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