How To Create A Meeting In Teams

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:

Select Schedule a meeting in a chat (below the box where you type a new message) to book a meeting with the people in the chat.
Go to Calendar on the left side of the app and select New meeting in the top right corner.
Select a range of time in the calendar. A scheduling form will pop open.

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.

Once you're done filling out the details, select Save. This will close the scheduling form and send an invite to everyone's Outlook inbox.

Note:If you use categories in your Outlook calendar, they will show up in Teams at the top of the scheduling form. If you want to change the name or color of a category, you'll need to do so from Outlook.

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.

Go to where it says Add required attendees. If anyone is an optional attendee, select Optional instead.
Type the person's full email address (ex: Joe@example.com).
Select Invite. They'll receive an email with a link to the meeting.

Make it a channel meeting

Select New meeting.
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.

Notes:

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.

SelectAdd 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 toMeet 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.

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 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.