By default, Outlook automatically creates online Teams meetings for every meeting you create in your Outlook Calendar. This guide will show you how you can turn this off for individual meetings and how to turn this setting off completely so the meetings aren’t automatically created on Teams.
How to turn off online meeting for one off meeting
1. In Outlook go to Calendar
2. Click New Meeting to create a new meeting
3. On the top options bar head to the Meeting tab
4. Click the “Don’t Host Online” button.
You can now continue to create your meeting and it will not be created with an online Teams meeting link.
How to turn off automatic online meetings for all meetings
1. In Outlook select File from the option bar at the top left
2. Select the Options at the bottom left
3. When the options menu appears select Calendar on the left side
4. Then under the Calendar options header untick the “Add online meeting to all meetings” tick box
5. Click OK at the bottom right of the options menu to close it and save these settings.
How to create an online meeting for a single invitation
If you have turned off automatic online meetings and want to host a meeting online through Teams then you can follow these steps.
1. In Outlook go to Calendar
2. Click New Meeting to create a new meeting
3. On the top options bar head to the Meeting tab
4. Click the Teams Meeting button
This will then add an online Teams meeting to your meeting invite. You can now add all your meeting information to the invite and send it off to the required participants.
I need some help with online meetings through Outlook
LinkedIn Learning have many video tutorials in using Microsoft Outlook, along with many other videos. LinkedIn Learning is free for students and staff at UON and we have a guide available to help you get started.
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