A while ago, I have set up a meeting in Outlook's calendar and invited some colleagues.
Now, we have come to the decision to use MS Teams for this meeting, so I clicked the "Teams Meeting" button in the toolbar for the event. This caused Outlook to
- put "Microsoft Teams" into the location field and
- write a link to the Teams meeting into the body of the event and
- replace the "Teams Meeting" toolbar button with a "Join Teams Meeting" button that will directly open MS Teams.
As the list of external participants that would be invited was not quite finalized yet and I did not want to send all those that had signed up already too many event updates, I chose not to save the event and send updates for now, intending to come back later.
Now, an hour later, I received the full list of external participants. Ready to edit my event, I see that the auto-generated location and the body are both gone (as expected, because I did not save my changes before).
However, the toolbar button "Teams Meeting" is still gone, I just have the "Join Teams Meeting" button!
That's great, now I can join the meeting, but no-one else can, because I do not have the link anymore.
I can live with the location not being set to "Microsoft Teams" (I can obviously type that text myself, though I seem to remember there was some special formatting to it), but how do I get back my meeting link that I can put into the event body?
Best Answer
I have finally found a solution:
Once I have joined the meeting on MS Teams, I can open the list of participants.
In there, I have the option of inviting additional participants, and next to the respective input box, there is a tiny button with a chain/link icon. Clicking it will copy just the "Join Teams Meeting" text with the appropriate link to the clipboard that I can then paste into the event body again.
So, there's no direct way from within Outlook (and I do have to consider the fact that the "Teams Meeting" button won't come back a bug), but at least there is some way to restore the Teams meeting invite.