Office Meetings Automatically Set to Teams Meetings

Overview

This article will go over what to do in the event that the meetings you set in Microsoft Office are automatically set to occur in Teams and you do not want that.

Environment

Office 21, Office 365, Windows and MacOS

Troubleshooting/Resolution

Due to changes within Office 2021 on PC, the ability to change a meeting request to not populate as a Teams Meeting is not available. This option does exist within Office 365 however, and also exists within Office 2021 on Mac.

If you are attempting to create a meeting and do not want it to state that it is a Teams meeting by default, you can do the following:

  1. In Outlook, choose File and then Options.
  2. Select the Add-ins tab of Outlook Options dialog box.
  3. Confirm that Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office is listed in the Active Application Add-ins list
  4. If the Teams Meeting Add-in is listed in the Active Application Add-ins list, select Disabled Items in Manage and then select Go…
  5. Set the checkbox next to Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office.
  6. Choose OK on all dialog boxes and restart Outlook.

If you are using Outlook 2021 on Mac or in the browser, you can adjust the following:

Outlook Client

  1. Within Preferences, select Calendar.
  2. In Calendar, select Disable Add online meeting to all meeting.

Outlook.office.com

  1. From a browser, go to outlook.office.com and sign in as typical
  2. Select Settings from the top-right of your account and select Calendar
  3. In Calendar, select Events and invitations and Disable Add online meetings to all meetings
Additional Information or Notes

For additional questions you can contact the IT Help Desk at 540-568-3555 or at helpdesk@jmu.edu.

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