Chat is visible to users who declined a Teams meeting invitation

[Erik365Online]

Hello everyone,

I stumbled upon a Teams meeting behaviour which I did not really pay attention to until I was asked.

It is not an issue or problem, the question is, is the following behaviour by design? And did it change recently?

We noticed the following:

• if someone gets a Microsoft Teams meeting invitation,
• the person declines the invitation
• the person still gets access to the declined Teams meeting chat.
• the person who declined will see when the Teams meeting takes places
• the person who declined will see if someone who attends the meeting starts to chat
• the person who declined will still be able to join the Teams meeting.
• Users are on Exchange Online and Teams-only
• Users are internal ones

Is this behaviour by design?

And did this behaviour change recently or did I just not notice this before?

Is this anyhow adjustable? Any configuration option for this? Yet, I haven't found one.

BR,

Erik

[#2]

Just because I was busy and had to decline the meeting does not mean that I shouldn't be able to see the conversation or maybe watch the recording

[#3]

@erik365: We noticed this too.
@Ed Woodrick: OK, but if I'm invited to a meeting which I don't care about at all, then I don't want to bothered by the conversation chat.

Is there really no way to adjust settings here?

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Try leaving the chat. You can also mute the meeting chat, so you are not constantly being notified.

[#5]

Ok, thank you. This means it works like that by design.

[#6]

Of course you can just leave the chat. I'm missing the option to not add users in the first place!

[#7]

Yes, I'm also really annoyed at work by some meetings I definitely don't care about.
If anyone from Microsoft reads this, it would be really appreciated if you provide with a slider in options for meeting not to pop-up when they are declined in calendar.

[#8]

@Milkinho  I wonder if this happens with the Q&A options?

[#9]

Microsoft, please give the meeting organizer the option to turn off people automatically seeing the chat for meetings they decline. We have optional department-wide meetings, and folks complain about seeing the chat after they decline. Yes, they can leave the chat if they wish, but this is 100+ people having to take an action AFTER they get unwanted chat notifications, rather than just giving the meeting organizer the option to click a box to turn off auto-enrollment in the chat for those who decline meetings. It's an ongoing complaint we hear and it would be GREAT if you could offer a fix!