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When scheduling a meeting, send an invite to the entire Channel instead of Inviting each member manually.

Currently, when you create a new meeting you select the Channel to meet in and then have to type in each member to invite. I would like to just invite the entire Channel (so I don't have to type each member's name in) and each member get an outlook notification.

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  • Hugo Hays commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teams guys: this is so very basic and takes so much work doing properly (you can't even pause the invite to see check who is in the Channel and then come back to the invite) that it seems you haven't really used it yourselves. It is embarrassing not to have had this better worked out even before the product launched.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree with this: "As someone else commented, at LEAST give me the option to drop a semicolon-delineated string of email addresses into the invite field like I've been doing in Outlook for like 20 years." I just had to manually add 213 email addresses...

  • Will Scarbrough commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Also this is key to be able to use Scheduling Assistant to find the right time for this meeting in the first place!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature should also allow us to invite people who are not (yet) part of a channel. I frequently organise meetings with my team that include people from outside our organisations, and having to include their email addresses one by one is a pain...

  • LTC Jonathan B. Ott, US Army commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As someone else commented, at LEAST give me the option to drop a semicolon-delineated string of email addresses into the invite field like I've been doing in Outlook for like 20 years.

  • Kedar commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Request to add/incorporate an option in the drop down menu itself of adding an excel file which would correspondingly add the necessary details (e-mail IDs, usernames etc.) of all team members through the data taken as input from excel file uploaded.

    I think this feature would significantly make the process of adding team members a hassle free and efficient i.e not having to refer to multiple pages, saving their several searches thereby ease the process.

    I hope this feature/service is also added to the Microsoft Teams platform as well, oh wait, why not all platforms of Microsoft incorporate this feature/service !

    Thank you

  • anon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    this is really dumb not to have... just made me have to spend hours re-planning my next week.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Teachers often need to set up different blocks (classes) of students in separate channels within the same Team. For example, a teacher may teach three to eight different classes of students a subject, each class with its own channel. The classes may work at a different pace or be entirely differentiated. The classes/channels need to meet with the teacher separately from the other classes/channels. We need to be able to set up meetings quickly and easily for separate channels so that classes/channels have separately called meetings! We don’t want to need to set up multiple teams for one subject; very confusing.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This feature is necessary for teams to be effective. As of now channel and team is useless for me.

    I end up creating a new meeting everytim inviting same persons as my colleagues expect meeting invitation to show up in their calendar in outlook.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    at LEAST give me the option to drop a semicolon-delineated string of email addresses into the invite field like I've been doing in Outlook for like 20 years.

  • Richard commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have spent at least an hour trying to invite a whole channel without having to invite everyone individually. It's distinctly odd that you can't do this.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is so obvious and so needed, it seems like this is more of a "bug" than an enhancement request.

  • Nick Balestrino commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would be perfect to have this as an option when creating an invite if you want to send the notification/invite to the team members rather than it being an always or never situtation.

  • JuJu commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    voting yes - selecting a Team or channel within should invite everyone in Team/Channel

  • senthil R commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please add a feature to make meeting invites for the contact groups in the chat and as well add the feature to add all the members of the channel in a single click for a meeting invite.

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