Dec 07 2021 02:39 PM
I have what I can't imagine being a unique situation that I am trying to solve - MS O365 support hasn't been able to come up with a solution.
We have an org 'master calendar' with several reoccurring events that are sent to specific distro groups. For example - on the Org 'MasterCalendar' there is a Wednesday all-hands web conference sent to the everyone@org.com distro group. the meeting invite includes the web conf link and details.
The issue I am trying to solve is that when a new employee is hired, they're joined to the everyone@org.com distro group but the meeting invite has no way, that I can find, to detect that the distro group has changed and thus send the invite to the new employee.
MS support mentioned that I could possibly do this with PowerAutomate but that would require saving the meeting ICS file somewhere, and then creating a new flow for every individual meeting to send that ICS file as an attachment to the new employee. This is a hurdle as I would like the managers of the calendar to be able to add events without contacting me every time to create a new flow. This also means if the calendar event is updated, a new ICS file has to be exported and the flow updated which - let's be real- I don't expect the calendar managers (non-IT) to consistently notify me when they make a change to an event so I can update the ICS file and flow so this has a lot of opportunities to send out outdated events.
Has anyone else encountered this issue and found a solution?
Dec 08 2021 12:59 PM