Remove Teams Info from Calendar Invite - Don't Host Online

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Conrad Murray
28 May, 2021

Following on from this post:

Office 365 Migrations – What happens to Outlook Meetings with embedded Teams URLs? – Nero Blanco

We developed a tool to strip out Teams info from Calendar invites, so that new Teams info could be added back in (big issue when migrating to a new tenant (see above)

Remove Microsoft Teams conferencing information from meeting – Nero Blanco

Native Feature

Well, it’s almost like Microsoft were reading our blogs because now you can do this natively in Outlook, although they have made it somewhat half hidden. Not sure if this by accident or on purpose.

When you create a new meeting in Outlook many of you may have noticed that it defaults to putting in a Teams meeting as soon as you hit “Invite Attendees”.

This is a tad annoying if you are A) meeting in person B) using another meeting tool C) it’s just a personal invite like even meeting for lunch.

You can at this point just bail out and use the “Don’t Host Online” option from the new Teams Settings cog wheel. If you haven’t seen this before you are probably unaware of it, especially as you have to click the drop down to see it.

However, after you send the invites, that option disappears when you go back to edit it.

However, you can get it back reasonably easily, by customizing your Outlook ribbon for the Appointment form. Start an invite (you don’t need to save or send), right click anywhere on the ribbon and choose “Customize the Ribbon”

Choose commands from: Main Tabs\Appointment\Teams Meeting\Settings and find “Don’t Host Online”. On the right hand side under Customize the Classic Ribbon you need to click New Group

Right click it and rename. Give it a meaningful name and move it up to under Teams Meeting. Drag over from the left the “Don’t Host Online” option

OK your way out.

Now go find a meeting where you are the Chairperson and you will see it on the ribbon.

Click on it, and voila, Teams stuff gone. A quick save (CTRL+S) to be sure. Now you can see Teams Info is lit up again if you do need to add back Teams Meeting information after a tenant to tenant migration – or just wanted it gone.

Remember to send the update (NOT Cancel Meeting!)

Conrad Murray

Conrad Murray is a Microsoft Certified IT consultant working in IT for over 20 years specialising in the Messaging arena and in particular Office 365 and previously Microsoft Exchange On-Premises and IBM Domino. Working with like minded colleagues now delivering very large scale complex migrations from Office 365 to Office 365 (tenant to tenant), Lotus Notes and On-Premises Microsoft Exchange to Office 365.