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Easy, streamlined, way to invite all of the team to a meeting

Please design an easy, streamlined way to invite the whole team to a meeting and not have to invite them individually or in a workaround way such as creating meetings in Teams with no users. This could be something like an everyone button in Outlook to add all team members, or when inviting in teams adding an everyone button and it sends all members an invite. This is being requested through the Tech Community

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  • Christopher Carden commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    @MicrosoftTeams, this would be a major plus to a fairly decent tool. Inviting entire teams to a meeting would be a home run for you and for us!

  • Jordi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I have to schedule meetings that involves people from different departments or Teams, that means the people is not part of a single team and I have to add them manually every time. And It's not possible to get the invited list from a previous meeting and copy and paste to the new one. How is this possible? manually adding 50 people each time. Really this is not user friendly. Please add the functionality

  • Carrie commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Wow - I can't believe it's really an issue and not my lack of knowledge. Seriously have to individually add each person. Ugh.

  • Mike commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed. This is such a pain with large teams. I need a way to include all participants easily. Why can't you add a team or private channel. Contact Groups you set up don't work. Not even tags work.

  • Keith Henry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    By not including this feature you are driving customers to other platforms. Please behave like customer-oriented corporation (oxymoron?) and react quickly to fix this.

  • Tim Roman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    are you freaking serious? I have a company with 150K PEOPLE. ADD the ******* functionality to copy and paste email addresses to the invite list!!!!!! Who designs this ****???

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    IF there is a way yo invite a whole team to a meeting it is not intuitive. If there is not a way- what else could you possibly be working on that is more important?

  • Grant Gustafson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hating microsoft products is made easier by stupid apps like Teams. What? You want me to type all the email addresses manually? Why would anyone design a meeting scheduler that is broken from conception by lack of fundamental functionality?

  • Szabolcs commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    And we should be able to invite
    by SELECTING SEVERAL E-MAIL ADDRESSES (e.g. from Outlook)
    separated by commas or semicolons,
    and COPY-PASTE into the recipients field of the Teams meeting.

    And that would also be useful, if we could
    COPY A MEETING WITH ALL ITS PARTICIPANTS,
    and then GIVE A NEW NAME AND DATE-TIME to it.

  • Jacob Steentoft commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have a constantly growing team, so this is something that would add a lot of value for Teams meetings for us.

  • A Val commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Our teachers have classes/groups upward of 200 students.
    Every time they want to organize a class event in Teams, they have to copy paste the student list from a .txt document to make sure everyone gets an invite!
    Even under the current Corona situation, many teachers are ready to dump Teams ASAP because they get frustrated by extra steps like this.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I cannot believe it - all the time to add members to a team and you cannot invite a team to a meeting. A usable feature would have also been the ability to take a distribution list from office 365 - as this is typically your team and create a team from there. Epic fail Microsoft

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Definitely. I thought the whole purpose of scheduling a meeting using a team was that they'd all be invited.

  • Andrew T commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Maybe I can explain out problem as well as it relates directly to this; When a user creates a meeting in a channel for a team, the meeting is not sent to all members of that channel by default (which is fine) and there is no way to invite all members of that particular channel or any other Exchange Distribution List for that matter. Even something as simple as making all members of the channel required attendees via a checkbox would be appreciated.

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