Office Meetings Automatically Set to Teams Meetings

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
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