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Aug 3, 2024, 10:30:57 AM8/3/24

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Outlook now automatically adds a Teams Meeting link to any meeting I schedule using Outlook - I would like to permanently disable this for my Outlook as my team only uses Zoom for meetings. There does not seem to be any documentation about this and I have been unable to find anything in preferences that changes it permanently.

I find it disturbing that MS just went ahead and started assuming that I would use MS Teams for all of my meetings. Believe it or not, people still have face-to-face meetings and use other online meeting software products. This feature turning on by default caused a lot of confusion. The solution below completely disables MS Teams in Outlook. I would still like it as an option, but don't assume that every meeting I schedule will use MS Teams. It's a big overstep.

I hate that I cannot pick to have a Teams meeting or not. I would like to send meeting request and be able to either ADD a Teams meeting. I do NOT want all of my meeting invites to have a Teams meeting. Disabling this means it is totally disabled. JUNK!

We're running Office LTSC Pro Plus 2021 and its version is 2108 and I think that's before the "Add online meeting to all events" option was introduced. So I'm finding we have to disable the Teams Add-in in Outlook to stop the behavior but of course that removes all ability in Outlook to schedule a Teams meeting. Any suggestions?

How do we disable automatic Teams meetings in duplicated meeting invitations on Outlook OWA? In my settings, I've unchecked the "automatically add online meeting to all meetings" (seriously do you not employ any copy editors?), but every time I duplicate a meeting invitation, it overrides the existing zoom links and attaches Teams links within the body, along with a "join Teams meeting" button. Even after I once again switch off the "add Teams meeting" button in the Duplication dialog box. Please make it stop.

Yeah i would like to know this as well. It's pretty annoying that MS would randomly enforce this. We don't want users using Teams meetings for compliance reasons and now every meeting produces a Teams video call? Users are very confused.

If you don't use Outlook online very often, just open your internet browser and enter office.com in the URL, then login, if necessary.
Select the Outlook app from the menu on left
Select settings (cog wheel)
Select View all Outlook settings (at the bottom)
Select Calendar, then Events and invitations
Uncheck Add online meeting to all meetings
Select Save

Thanks to @Andy David - MVP for finding this. It was driving me nuts. :) Others mentioned they couldn't find this in their desktop version of Outlook. I found it but it was slightly different for me. I am using the latest version of Outlook O365 (installed, not web) and have both the Teams and Zoom plug-ins enabled so my option was hidden inside another option. Here is my option screen, similar to @Andy David - MVP .

I suspect I don't see the checkbox right off because I have multiple meeting providers. Even though I have both Teams and Zoom already enabled, the dialog has the button to Add Meeting Provider. One might think it would state Add/Update or something else. I almost didn't click on it because I didn't want to Add a provider.

I'm suddenly having the same problem, it just started within the past week and I have no idea why. There is no setting in my options for "add online meeting to all meetings". When I logged in to Outlook online, I do see the option there - but it was already not checked and I am still having this problem. Can anyone help?

This option does not exist in Outlook 2016, for Outlook 2016 where can this be disabled? I want the Teams integration to be an option but every time I click "Invite Attendees" a MS Teams meeting is configured and added, I would like this to stop.

20240617: Thank you, Andy David.
When I went to uncheck that option, I noticed that to the right of it I could select a different meeting provider to use instead of Teams. (I only have Teams so none others were available.)

This issue is still happening for me, and the option is turned OFF in the Outlook app (macOS)., also its whereabouts in no way matches the instructions for finding the option above. I am using the web version for mail, but even though I uncheck the option, it reappears when I reopen the Calendar, and is showing in the day entry. Cannot upload screenshot of the issue because the Add image button is greyed out. I HATE it when mega companies like Microsoft decide for me what I want instead of allowing me to do it, and then send me on a wild goose chase for the next hour googling for how to turn the damn thing off, and when I follow their instructions, it doesn't work. So far, staff at my uni have had three edit emails with no change after each.

Another gripe: when setting up my profile to respond here, I couldn't add my credentials without agreeing to by spammed by Microsoft, but when I clicked the Add link, it said, "you must agree to the Privacy agreement to proceed", so I clicked Privacy agreement. However there was no button to agree, meaning that they have bundled privacy with the right to spam you.

With version 1.6.00.22378, the Teams meeting problem appeared again, as written above. However, in the meantime, a preview version was released, with which - thank God - the problem no longer occurred.

We are having the same issue with Office 2019 Pro deployed in a large enterprise environment. The option is unchecked in our O365 webmail settings. The option does not exist in the Outlook 2019 Client Options. Yet, teams meeting are being appended to all meetings by default. Is there a registry edit that could be made for this?

Same issues happening here. Using Office Outlook LTSC Standard 2021. End users get Teams meeting invite even though most end-users only want a in-person face to face meeting. There is no way to disable this from happening. I contaced Microsoft and they want us to pay $499 for support. We are a non-profit charity organization and using charity volume licensing. Seems almost criminal to pay $499 just to report a bug to Microsoft.

I'm seeing that recent update to Teams has fixed this issue. Teams version 1.6.00.20776 - Office 2021 LTSC - with the Teams Add-in enabled we are no longer having new meetings creating as a Teams online meeting. Hopefully that's it for this issue and thanks for fixing what you broke Microsoft....

Close Outlook, go to settings and more (...) and check for updates. After a little while it will update itself. Give it a minute or two and then manually exit teams from the notification area. Relaunch Team and check the version is now 1.6.00.20074. Test Outlook. My first meeting had it Teams meeting info in it, but anymore after that didn't.

This issue is now resolved by MS. We have confirmed. You can do two things. Update Teams to the July 19th version for all users. Or you can have all the users manually update Teams in the menu. A third possible option is to create a scheduled task to run as the user to run update.exe in their profile and it will update on the next launch. I can confirm this fix worked on a few hundred machines already and I am about to go full prod using the teams machine wide installer method today.

I am closing mine today. We used PS App Deploy Toolkit and closed all office apps as well as teams in our deployments as well as performed a profile cleanup for good measure. I can share out snippets of the code later if you want. It could be that your issue is related to components being open.

For people with Outlook 2016 still having issues, check the Teams-plugins folder! I noticed I had two versions in the folder. By renaming (or deleting) the old one, it finally worked for me (meaning no auto Teams meetings).

@Stijn Hurkmans There is the same folder also in Office 2019, and in fact there were two folders with different add-in versions in it. The folder with the old version of the add-in was deleted, but it still does not work for us on the terminal server. Does anyone have another suggested solution for Office 2019? We are starting to get stuck.

After I deleted the plug-in, closed Outlook and reopened it, the first time I opened a new meeting, the window without the Teams meeting actually came up first - But after about 2 seconds it refreshed, and promptly the Teams invitation was there again. What could this be?

A user that was fixed for this problem has brought to our attention that the issue has returned. After checking their version of Teams, they are now on 1.6.00.22378 with no option to stop this happening again. MS needs to stop assuming people want to have a Teams meeting for everything.

I can't test Outlook 2016 but our Teams is updated to version 1.6.00.22954. So you might check if there is a new version of Teams available - though your version should have the fix...in theory but Outlook 2016 may not be covered for whatever reason.

Also as some noted in the thread above, for tbshooting, in Windows File Explorer navigate to %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\TeamsMeetingAddin to check the versions of the add-in. There should always be two versions - the previous one and the newest one - there shouldn't be any need to delete the older one.