Having issues with the syncing of calendars that originate in Outlook Calendar vs. Teams Calendar

Mike Manke 0 Reputation points
2023-01-23T20:30:15.1033333+00:00

Having issues with the syncing of calendars that originate in Outlook Calendar vs. Teams Calendar.

Scenario #1.  

In Outlook, team meeting sent to ELT (distribution list and shared calendar), shows up in personal outlook calendar, ELT Outlook Calendar, not in Team calendar. 

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Scenario #2

In teams, meeting sent to ELT Teams site (same as ELT distribution), shows up in personal outlook, ELT outlook calendar and teams ELT calendar.

Why would it make a difference if the same ELT group is in teams as in outlook calendar? It shouldn't matter if I go one direction or the other.calendar issue.jpg

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  1. Kael Yao-MSFT 37,586 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2023-01-24T02:40:36.9633333+00:00

    Hi @Mike Manke,

    When you say Team calendar I suppose you mean the channel calendar (ELT - calendar) in the screenshot.

    To me this is the expected behavior as channel calendar is not actually the group calendar, thus it would not show meetings created in the group calendar in Outlook, but only shows meetings for this channel.

    However, channel calendar does store meeting items in the group calendar so this is why Scenario #2 happens.

    This link which introduces how channel calendar works may be helpful:

    Teams Channel Calendar App Makes Channel Meetings Easier to Access

    (Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)

    If you would like to add the group calendar to the channel instead, currently there is no officially supported way to do it, while this feature is under development.

    Please refer to this following active Teams Uservoice thread:

    Include Office 365 group calendar12

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