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Your calendar in Teams is connected to your Exchange calendar. In other words, when you schedule a meeting in Outlook, it'll show up in Teams, and vice versa.

Every meeting scheduled in Teams is automatically made into an online meeting. Scheduling from Outlook? Learn how to add Teams to your Outlook meeting.

Note: Up to 1,000 invitees can join a Teams meeting and interact by using chat, audio, and video. Invitees can also join a meeting that already has 1,000 participants (up to 10,000) as view-only attendees.

Schedule a meeting

There are several ways to schedule a meeting in Teams:

  • From a one-on-one or group chat, select Schedule a meeting Schedule a meeting button below the message box to book a meeting with the people in the chat. You can't schedule a meeting from a meeting chat.

  • From your Calendar Meetings button on the left side of Teams, select New meeting in the top right corner.

The scheduling form is where you'll give your meeting a title, invite people, and add meeting details. Use the Scheduling Assistant to find a time that works for everyone.

Scheduling Assistant tab in the Teams new meeting scheduling form.  

In Scheduling Assistant, you can see attendees' time zones, schedules, and availability during different timeslots. The Scheduling Assistant grid will show each attendee's schedule. Shaded areas show when attendees are busy or have tentative meetings. Unshaded areas show when attendees are free. 

Screenshot of Scheduling Assistant time zone view in Teams

Once you're done filling out the details, select Save to close the scheduling form and invite attendees to the meeting.

Add a dial-in number  

Include a dial-in number and conference ID so that participants can call in to the Teams meeting. If you schedule the meeting from Outlook, the dial-in number and conference ID automatically appear in the scheduled meeting invite. For how to add these details when scheduling in Teams, see Add a dial-in number for a meeting in Teams.

Assign categories to a meeting

Color code your calendar with categories. Just like in Outlook, you can assign one or more categories to each meeting in your calendar. There are a couple ways to assign categories:

  1. Right-click an event in your calendar and select Categorize, then pick a color.

  2. When scheduling a meeting, select Category at the top of the scheduling form.

    Note: Currently, categories can't be applied to channel meetings.

Invite people outside your organization 

Teams lets you invite people outside your organization, including those who don't have a Teams license. You'll need their full email address to invite them.

  1. Go to where it says Add required attendees. If anyone is an optional attendee, select Optional instead.

  2. Type the person's full email address (ex: Joe@example.com).

  3. Select Invite. They'll receive an email with a link to the meeting.

Invite people with a link 

Teams lets you invite people to a meeting via a meeting link. To share this link:

  1. Create the meeting in Teams.

  2. Go to Calendar Meetings button on the left side of Teams and select the scheduled meeting.

  3. The meeting link will appear as a URL. Copy it by selecting 

Add a co-organizer

After you've invited people to your meeting, you can add up to 10 co-organizers to help manage your meeting. Before adding co-organizers, make sure the people you want to add are already added as required attendees and then follow the steps below:

  1. Select your meeting and then select Edit.

  2. Select More options More options icon > Meeting options.

  3. On the meeting options page, next to Choose co-organizers, select the down arrow and choose the name of the co-organizer.

    add a co-organizer to a meeting

  4. Select Save at the bottom of your screen.

Note: To learn more, see Add co-organizers to a meeting.

Make it a channel meeting

  1. Select New meeting.

  2. Type the name of a channel where it says Add channel (under the time and date fields).

  Add channel to a Teams meeting.

Channels can't be edited or added once the invite is sent. You'll need to send a new invite with the updated channel.

Note: When you have a meeting in a channel, everyone in the team will be able to see it and join it in that channel. This feature isn't available in private channels.

Once you've added the people you want, select Scheduling Assistant to find the best time.

If it's a recurring meeting, open the dropdown menu next to Does not repeat (just below the date). Choose how often you want it to occur from the default options, or select Custom to create your own cadence.

Schedule meetings in a channel calendar 

If you're unfamiliar with how to add a calendar to a channel, the steps are outlined for you at See all your meetings in Teams. Once that's done, you have a few ways to add events to the shared calendar.

  • Select Add new event at the top of the calendar.

  • Click and drag your cursor on the calendar to select a block of time.

  • Or, select the arrow next to Meet now at the top of the app to open the menu and select Schedule meeting.

Each of these actions will open the scheduling form with the channel name filled in, feel free to add an Outlook group or individuals by manually entering their names. Guests and partners from outside your org won't have access to the channel calendar and will also require being added to the meeting invite.

Right-click for more options

Right-click an event in your calendar to RSVP, remove it if it's canceled, or open the invitation to view the meeting details. If the event is a Teams meeting, you'll also get options to Join online and Chat with participants.

Context menu of a calendar event in Teams.  

Teams meetings will show a join button on an event in your calendar five minutes before the start of a meeting. Once someone joins the meeting, the event will change colors to let you know they're online.

Select Join to open the meeting settings window to confirm your preferred camera and mic settings before joining the online meeting.

Note: If you have overlapping meetings in your calendar, the join button won't be available. But you can still right-click the event and select Join online.

Reschedule a meeting

In your Teams calendar, you can reschedule meetings and events you organized. To quickly update a meeting time, select in in your Teams calendar, drag it into a new timeslot, and drop it.

Screenshot of dragging and dropping Teams meeting into new timeslot

You'll be notified of invitees' availability before you update the meeting time.

You can also change the meeting time by selecting the meeting in your Teams calendar, selecting Edit, choosing a new time, and selecting Send update. Attendees will automatically receive a notification with the updated time. 

Set your Show As status in a Teams meeting

As an organizer, you can set the Show As status of the meeting in the action bar. When participants RSVP, their status will automatically reflect the status the organizer set. 

As a participant, you can choose to set your individual status for the meeting through Show As independent of the status set by the organizer. The updated status will reflect on your calendar. The default Show As value for all the meetings an organizer schedules is Busy.

You can set your Show As status in several ways:

On the Scheduling Form Details page

Image displaying how to set a status in a Teams meeting using the drop down status menu.

On your Peek of the meeting (Microsoft Surface)

Image displaying the Show As flyout menu with potential statuses.

On the Details view of the meeting (as a participant)

Image displaying the Test Meeting screen with menu of available statuses.

Schedule a meeting

To schedule a meeting, go to Calendar Meetings button on the bottom of the app, then select Schedule a meeting Schedule a meeting button in the top right.

Go to Add participants Add people to team button and select the people you'd like to invite.

Next, go to Share to a channel:

  • If you want to have your meeting in a channel, select the appropriate channel.

  • If you’d rather not, skip it.

Note: When you have a meeting in a channel, people will be able to see and join it in that channel.

Then, set start and end times and write a description for the event.

Finally, select Done to schedule your meeting.

Meeting details

View details about your meeting by going to Calendar  Meetings button, selecting a meeting, and tapping Details.

In your meeting details, you can see:

  • Who's invited to the meeting.

  • Invitees' RSVP statuses.

  • Related content, such as documents or files that might be relevant to your meeting.

You can also choose to delete your event or forward the meeting to someone else.

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