Join Meeting Button
When I schedule a meeting as a Skype Meeting it adds a "Join Meeting" button to the Outlook reminder that pops up. That button does not exist when I schedule a Teams Meeting. It should.
Without that button I have to double click to go into the calendar item, locate the hyperlink to "Join Teams Meeting", click that, which opens my web browser, and then the web browser tries to launch the Teams app, but first asks me for confirmation, which requires another click. You've added several layers of unnecessary clicks which impede my ability to join a meeting.
Just include the "Join Meeting" button in the reminders that are generated for a Teams Meeting the same way the button is there in a reminder for a Skype meeting.
Tom Dietrich
shared this idea
Clicking on the join button in an Outlook reminder takes you to the browser to launch Teams today. The work to bypass the browser and directly launch Teams is being worked on. We’ll update when we have more details.
19 comments
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Andy Carsell
commented
My Teams reminders do have the "Join meeting" button, but clicking it does not open Teams. Clicking it opens in my browser, and then I have to click Launch Teams (which is already launched), and then it joins me to the meeting... This seems like unnecessary clicks. Is this the design, or is something configured wrong on my end?
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Janna
commented
I've noticed that sometimes the "join now" button appears and sometimes it doesn't. We've tried scheduling meetings through Teams and Outlook different ways and there is no consistency as to when the button appears and when it doesn't. It is very frustrating! I vote that the button always appear if you have the Teams App!
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Senthil Prabhu S
commented
This is definitely a pain point for most of us though most have not voted or posted comments. I have many meetings in the day and since Skype is phased out (and we are now used to it), I really miss that "Join meeting" directly from the reminder in Outlook. It is a pain in Teams to open the meeting invite and click the link which takes you to a browser and the browser takes a (little to a LOTTTT) while until the standalone Teams app is opened up. This is real pain !!
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Amy Grinage
commented
I vote for this too.
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Anonymous
commented
I thought there was a join now button on the pop up reminders in outlook to join a teams meeting, but now I don't see it. I've switched to Teams only so that might be the cause, but I have reports from other Users that are not Teams only saying the same thing. PLEASE fix!!!!!
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Ray Allen
commented
Is the "Join Meeting" option in the Outlook reminder only available for those that have migrated their mailboxes to Exchange Online?
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Scott Russo
commented
Is this available for 1808 Semi-Annual subscribers? I found this article: https://www.howto-outlook.com/news/update-2018-8-ol2016.htm
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Anonymous
commented
This must be part of the Teams integration for Outlook, how can this be enabled?
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Anonymous
commented
I have this option available to me in my tenant, but several of my coworkers don't. Has anyone figured this out?
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William
commented
Not enabled for me.
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Anonymous
commented
I do not see this implemented in Outlook but Valentin Guerin stated it was. How do we enable this?
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Justin Phillips
commented
If this was implemented I do not see it working I vote for this ASAP.
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Anonymous
commented
I vote for this. It is too complicated to join meetings without that.
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Pat Bayer
commented
I could have sworn I had seen this work in Outlook previously, but I don't have this today. Was this feature implemented, then broken?
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Ref Fransen
commented
I saw that this was implemented, but still do not see it show up for any of our users
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Valentin Guerin
commented
This should be closed, the feature has been implemented
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Ivar Stange commented
I agree. This should be a very simple thing to add in Outlook to make it much easier to transition to Teams.
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Heath Gieson
commented
Agreed. We cannot move users from Skype to Teams without this.
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Pingyu Nao
commented
This appears to be available but you need to edit your toolbar.
From the "Choose commands from:" dropdown, choose "All Commands," then look for "Join Teams Meeting."