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Include Office 365 group calendar in teams

It would be good to be able to click on a calendar button on the left hand side to get a view of the Office 365 groups calendar as you would in the calendar app. Good for being able to look and get a glimpse of what is coming up with the group. At the moment I have to go back to the calendar to look at it.

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  • russatch commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature would be most beneficial in our organization as well. Had several of our users mention the need when in Teams.

  • Jesse Vaught commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Looking forward to this.

    In the meantime, a great solution is to expose the already existing Group calendar for the Team.

    To add a group calendar to a team channel you can create a Website tab and paste in the calendar URL. The problem is that the calendar URL is inaccessible for modern teams because the underlying Office 365 Group is hidden.

    You have to run a PowerShell cmdlet to enable Group visibility. Connect to Exchange Online in PowerShell (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/exchange/exchange-online/connect-to-exchange-online-powershell/connect-to-exchange-online-powershell?view=exchange-ps) and then run the following cmdlet:

    Set-UnifiedGroup -Identity "<Group Name>" -HiddenFromExchangeClientsEnabled:$false

    Then you can get the calendar url and add it to a Teams "website" tab (many posts online for how to do this) For example, https://www.tecklyfe.com/microsoft-teams-how-to-add-the-group-calendar-to-teams/

    Once it's set up, remember to go into the Group setting and adjust the group mailbox settings to Stop Following in Inbox, otherwise people will start getting a LOT of unnecessary emails every time a meeting is created and replied to.

    Image attached.

    Hope this helps!

    Jesse

  • Ryan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Not sure I've seen anything added so that you can "view of the Office 365 groups calendar as you would in the calendar app." as originally suggested by Brendan on Nov 3, 2016. If this feature has been added, where do you go to view the "Office 365 group calendar" that is created when the team is created?

  • Matthijs J commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Its great to see you guys are working on it! It misses its mark completely with the first implementation though.

    Why would it email the entire team even though IF you select recipients? Whats the use of specific channels then? it does not even show from what channel you received the request of a meeting? Do i have to go through all 9 channels to see in which channel the meeting got created?

  • Ken ST commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Outlook Group/Team Calendars, Outlook Shared Calendars - where is the ability to add both of these Exchange Calendar Types to the one view in the Calendar function in Teams?

    e.g. My Outlook Calendar and the Bookings Calendar can currently show in the same Calendar view side by side in Teams - but no other Calendar can be added.

    Microsoft love making new versions of the same things - rather than integration. Now we have NEW Channel Calendars to add to the mix, but still no way of adding a Team/Group Calendar to the Calendar view.

    So frustrating - Calendars should be the easiest thing to add to Teams so that you don't need to leave Teams to check your one or MANY calendars.

  • Carlos Cordeiro commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    If the Channel Calendar is Microsoft's answer to this, its a start, however will need improvements. First one I can see is that, the Channel Calendar is not available from the mobile app.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree completely. We need to be able to incorporate shared meetings into Teams, not have to recreate an entirely new and separate calendar app. Most of us already have too many calendars as it is. We need functionality that synchronizes between devices.

    Also, I work with teams in Europe and Asia, it is important that the calendar incorporate worldwide time zones and offer multiple language options as some of the existing solutions do.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Would also like the capability of viewing shared Outlook calendars of team members - in Teams.

  • Raj Kumar Pandit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are using Office 365 Business and getting challenges to sync Microsoft Teams calendar with Google Calendar. Due to this issue our users getting lot of challenges.

    There is other meeting applications and platform where we get facilities to block calendar like Cisco WebEx, zoom meetings etc. where we block calendar and sync with associated Google Calendar automatically.

    Is there any such kind of integration facilities is available with Microsoft where if we block any calendar into Google and Sync with associated Microsoft Team's calendar automatically ?

  • Raj Kumar Pandit commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We are using Office 365 Business and getting challenges to sync Microsoft Teams calendar with Google Calendar. Due to this issue our users getting lot of challenges.

    There is other meeting applications and platform where we get facilities to block calendar like Cisco WebEx, zoom meetings etc. where we block calendar and sync with associated Google Calendar automatically.

    Is there any such kind of integration facilities is available with Microsoft where if we block any calendar into Google and Sync with associated Microsoft Team's calendar automatically ?

  • Kristi Schopp commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like to see the capabilities of a shared department calendar in Teams. Is that being pursued as a possibility? If so, is there a time frame as to when this might be a reality?

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