27 years with Organizer-as-dictator problem: Allow attendees to actually change a meeting
As a communications tool, the Outlook meeting invitation is saddled with some deeply unpleasant social implications, because once someone sends one, they are now the "organizer" and no one has any power to fix the organizer's mistakes, present better ideas, etc. without creating disagreeing/conflicting information of their own on the calendar. Small groups of people in a single organization need to be enabled to co-own their meetings, and unilaterally make corrections or other changes. Outlook has never allowed this without granting much broader access to an entire calendar at once. Technically, this would have to be an option, since the "dictator" model is important for things like an employee all-hands with hundreds of people invited. In Google Calendar, it was a simple checkbox option to let other attendees modify the original invitation and keep each other up-to-date. In my time with it, no one at that company ever felt the need to ask someone else for permission (in a preliminary email or phone communication) to send a calendar invite. In an Outlook/Exchange environment, people do this all the time. Some people who want to meet and even know when they want to do it are intimidated to send the invite and make themselves "organizer". We regularly have faulty information on our calendars because it belongs to someone else who doesn't know how or won't fix it. It's all very ridiculous and it's been this way for 27 years. I've seen similar problems with shared information in Teams corrected already, during its brief life. For Outlook/Exchange, it's been intractable. Is there any hope for a change?Controlling Who Receives Invitations to Teams Channel Meetings
Teams channel meetings belong to a channel, but who receives the invitations for these meetings? The answer is “it depends” – on group settings and options. The underlying Microsoft 365 group might have a subscriber list of users who want to receive email for new events like meetings or the user might choose to send invitations to everyone. We discuss the mechanics and explore a way to schedule meetings in shared and private channels too. https://office365itpros.com/2023/09/08/teams-channel-meeting-invites/
Teams Meeting with conference bridge invite issue
Greetings, I am having an issue with my meetings invites which Teams sends out when I create a meeting. I've enabled Conference bridge for my user via the Business Voice packet. When I create a meeting and send the invite, the mail invite sometimes contains the link to join the meeting (actually just the conference bridge number with conference ID), which looks like this: But sometimes it doesn't contain the call-in info, looks like this: First I thought it was due to the fact I was inviting external users, they weren't getting the call-in info. But then I tried sending out a few more and sometimes they DO get the call-in info (conf. bridge number & conference ID). What the heck is going on? Why are the mail invites always coming in differently?
Redirect Teams Meeting invites to Google Calendar
Hello, we activated Teams due to the Corona situation and face a problem here. We normally use GSuite as our primary tools for Mailing, Calendar and more. Now we want to schedule meetings via Microsoft Teams, which works fine so far, but we don't want invitations to be sent to the Microsoft E-Mail Account, but rather to Gmail. We use the following pattern for both our GSuite and Microsoft: "name.surname@company.com". If we invite someone from our company to a meeting, they receive an E-mail in their Microsoft Inbox, but even if we create redirect rules, they don't get the invitation redirected to their GMail. Is there a way to solve this? Thank you! Kevin
