Create option to only let Team Owners schedule meetings in a Teams Channel.

For really large (or Public) Teams it isn't ideal to let any member schedule a meeting in a Teams channel and automatically invite the whole Team to it. It would be great if there was a configuration setting that owners could restrict scheduling meetings in channels to only owners.

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Jennifer McGee shared this idea · Aug 26, 2020 · Flag idea as inappropriate… · Admin →

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Anonymous commented · December 17, 2020 9:10 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I 100% support this!!!

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James commented · August 31, 2020 4:56 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Support this and further to what Ricky Spitz mentioned, all meeting invites (large or small team) should have invites sent with the distribution list in the bcc field so that reply-all email flurries cannot happen.

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NG commented · August 30, 2020 11:42 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Support this suggestion.

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Anonymous commented · August 29, 2020 2:00 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Agree

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Tammy Correa commented · August 28, 2020 5:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I support this and would like this to be an option when an owner sets up Team Channels.

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Joe Kalinosky commented · August 27, 2020 6:20 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I fully support Jenna's concept.

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Anonymous commented · August 27, 2020 6:02 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Please please create this an as option

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Steven Todaro commented · August 27, 2020 5:35 AM · Flag as inappropriate

yes, please

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Ricky Spitz commented · August 27, 2020 5:31 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Voted for this but wonder if a better solution to yesterday's would be a more robust warning in Outlook before sending a 'reply all' to this many recipients.

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Anonymous commented · August 27, 2020 5:12 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a very good Idea!

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Anonymous commented · August 27, 2020 12:33 AM · Flag as inappropriate

I fully support this initiative.

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Chris Baughurst commented · August 27, 2020 12:20 AM · Flag as inappropriate

Restricting the scheduling of a team invite to only Owners would be a great idea.

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Giles Hine commented · August 27, 2020 12:11 AM · Flag as inappropriate

This is definitely a requirement. Users seem unable to prevent themselves replying to all

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Anonymous commented · August 26, 2020 11:34 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Agreed - good idea

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Mohamed Ameer Ibrahim A P commented · August 26, 2020 9:46 PM · Flag as inappropriate

Yes, agreed. Experienced the negative impact of not having this option yesterday.

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Anonymous commented · August 26, 2020 2:33 PM · Flag as inappropriate

If the problem is inviting the whole team to the meeting, it seems like a more direct solution would be: have scheduler select a notification option of team/channel/none.
If the problem is messaging the whole team in general, then a setting to restrict users ability to broadcast to whole team seems like the best match.

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John M. Mullen commented · August 26, 2020 2:04 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This is a great idea to allow configuration to restrict a potentially VERY disruptive error by regular users (like me).

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Anonymous commented · August 26, 2020 2:03 PM · Flag as inappropriate

agreed

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Anonymous commented · August 26, 2020 1:54 PM · Flag as inappropriate

I support this

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Steve Whitcomb commented · August 26, 2020 1:44 PM · Flag as inappropriate

This seems a very reasonable control for a very real problem.

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