We're facing a quite annoying problem with Teams meetings that causes all participants that were invited - irrespective of their response (unknown, decline, tentative) - to be brought into the meeting chat when the organiser begins the meeting and types in the chat box. We're getting a lot of users being confused as to how they ended up in a meeting chat and getting annoyed about chat notifications. Imagine how bad this is when you schedule a meeting for 'all' staff.
Steps:
1 - Schedule meeting "Test meeting" in outlook or teams and select multiple participants - either through a distribution group or one by one
2 - Have one of the requested participants 'Decline' the invite
3 - Begin the meeting as the organiser
4 - Write 'Hi folks' in the meeting chat
5 - The person that declined the invite then get's a notification for 'Hi folks' for the meeting chat of "Test meeting"
They then need to leave the meeting or mute it.
Has anyone else had this and got any fixes or workarounds? Currently for large meetings, we're copying a link from another meeting and pasting it in the the invite in outlook so neither Teams or Outlook realises that it's a Teams meeting.
