Booking a Teams Meeting with External Members

When creating a teams meeting, any external users can be invited in the same way UConn users can be added. This article describes how faculty, staff and students can use their Office 365 account to book a meeting with Teams and invite anybody to participate.

Scheduling a Meeting and Inviting External Users

1. Open Microsoft Teams.
2. On the sidebar to the left, click on Calendar.
3. In the top right corner, click on the purple button that says +New Meeting
4. Add a title to the Add title field
5. Add the attendees to the Invite People field. In the Invite People field, you can type any email of an external user you would like to join the meeting. Both external users (such as gmail accounts) and UConn users can be added to the same meeting. All invitees added to this list will get a link they can click to join the meeting.
6. Finish filling in details such as Start and End time.
7. Click Save to book the meeting.
8. You should receive a confirmation email when this is complete.

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