• The Microsoft Outlook mobile app now lets users simultaneously generate a meeting in Microsoft Teams when adding events to their email calendar. Meanwhile, the vendor has been updating the Teams mobile app with advanced features like location sharing and audio messages.
• The new Outlook for Mac will support shared calendars for customers subscribed to the Office Insider Mac Beta Channel in the first months of next year. When creating new content as a team, the ability to collaborate around documents and presentations becomes especially valuable when your team is not in the same location.
• The Outlook team actively monitors this forum. Import a.pst file into Outlook 2016 for Mac from Outlook for Windows. Use Time Machine to automatically archive or back up items in Outlook 2016 for Mac.
• The Teams Meeting button in Outlook for Mac will appear in the Outlook for Mac ribbon if Outlook is running production build 16.24.414.0 and later and is activated with an Office 365 client subscription. You must have the office365 account as the default account. Click on new items - meeting and you will Teams meeting button there.

Microsoft has partnered with leading companies to build programs that help you get things done right from your inbox. These programs are called Office Add-ins in Outlook 2016 and Outlook 2019, and Apps for Office in Outlook 2013, and help you speed up the way you access information on the web. For example, the Bing Maps add-in becomes available in an email that contains an address, and you.

This guide is intended to help macOS users who do not have the Teams meeting button in Outlook.

The guide outlines the necessary configuration and requirements that need to be met for the Teams meeting button to populate in your Outlook client.

The Teams meeting button will appear only after the following requirements have been met:

1. Microsoft Office is licensed via Office 365 and has been activated with your netid@uvm.edu account.
2. Your netid@uvm.edu account has been added to Outlook using the proper settings.
3. The MS Teams desktop client has been installed on your computer, and you have logged in with your netid@uvm.edu account.

If the Teams meeting button is missing from your Outlook client, please use the toggles below to complete each of the above requirements.

You must be using the Office 365 Subscription activated with your NetID account for the Teams Meetings button to appear in Outlook. Follow these instructions to locate your Office version.

If you are currently utilizing the Volume License you will need to switch your Office version to Office 365.

If you are already using the Office 365 Subscription, but it belongs to a different NetID, you will need to follow the instructions detailed in this guide from Microsoft to remove your License files. Then, sign back into Office 365 using your NetID credentials.

Outlook will need to be quit and reopened for these changes to fully take effect. When Outlook reopens, proceed to step 2.

1. Open the Outlook app, then click Outlook in the top right corner menu and select Preferences.
   
2. Select Accounts.
   
3. The User name field should be set to your NetID@uvm.edu. If it isn’t, change it.
   

Outlook will need to be closed and reopened for these changes to fully take effect. When Outlook reopens, proceed to step 3.

If Microsoft Teams is not installed on your computer, please see our Microsoft Teams guide to install and sign-in.

If you have Teams installed, but you are signed into the wrong account, sign out by clicking the portrait in the top right corner of Teams and selecting Sign out. Then, reopen Teams and sign-in using the instructions in our Microsoft Teams guide.

Microsoft Teams will need to be closed and reopened for these changes to fully take effect

After successfully completing the steps above, you should be able to create a Teams meeting directly from your Outlook calendar.

• Click the “New Meeting” button, enter the names of the individuals you’d like to invite, provide a subject, and then click the “Teams Meeting” button to add the online meeting info to the body of your meeting invite.
  

Troubleshooting

If you still do not see the Teams Meeting button after confirming that you are using Office 365, your Outlook account has been configured correctly, and that you are signed into Teams as detailed in the sections above, please fully reboot your computer.

There have been reported instances where it took several minutes for the Teams button to appear in Outlook, though, for the vast majority of users, the Teams Meeting button appears after Office and Teams were properly configured and the computer was fully rebooted.

If you’ve followed the steps above and you see a Skype for Business button in your macOS Outlook client, please do the following:

1. Open your Applications folder
2. Locate the Skype for Business application, right-click it, then select “Move to Trash”
3. Quit and re-open Outlook

The Teams Meeting add-in lets users schedule a Teams meeting from Outlook. The add-in is available for Outlook on Windows, Mac, web, and mobile.

Teams Meeting add-in in Outlook for Windows

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The Teams Meeting add-in is automatically installed for users who have Microsoft Teams and either Office 2013, Office 2016, or Office 2019 installed on their Windows PC. Users will see the Teams Meeting add-in on the Outlook Calendar ribbon.

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Note

• There is no direct URL that links to the Teams add-in.
• There are additional considerations if your organization runs both Teams and Skype for Business. Under some circumstances, the Teams add-in is not available in Outlook. See Upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams for details.
• User permissions to execute the Regsvr32.exe file is a minimum requirement for the Teams Meeting add-in to be installed on the computer.
• If users do not see the Teams Meeting add-in, instruct them to close Outlook and Teams, then restart the Teams client first, then sign in to Teams, and then restart the Outlook client, in that specific order.
• If you are using an Office Outlook installation from the Microsoft Store, the Teams Meeting add-in isn't supported. Users who require this add-in are advised to install Click-to-Run version of Office, as outlined in Office on Windows 10 in S mode article.

Teams Meeting add-in in Outlook for Mac

The Teams Meeting button in Outlook for Mac will appear in the Outlook for Mac ribbon if Outlook is running production build 16.24.414.0 and later and is activated with a Microsoft 365 or Office 365 client subscription.​

The meeting coordinates (the Teams join link and dial-in numbers) will be added to the meeting invite after the user clicks Send.

Teams Meeting add-in in Outlook Web App

The Teams Meetings button in Outlook Web App will appear as part of new event creation if the user is on an early version of the new Outlook on the web. See the Outlook Blog to learn about how users can try the early version of the new Outlook on the web.

The meeting coordinates (the Teams join link and dial-in numbers) will be added to the meeting invite after the user clicks Send.

Teams Meeting add-in in Outlook mobile (iOS and Android)

The Teams Meeting button shows up in latest builds of the Outlook iOS and Android app.

The meeting coordinates (the Teams join link and dial-in numbers) will be added to the meeting invite after the user clicks Send.

Teams Meeting add-in and FindTime for Outlook

FindTime is an add-in for Outlook that helps users reach consensus on a meeting time across companies. Once the meeting invitees have provided their preferred times, FindTime sends out the meeting invite on the user's behalf. If the Online meeting option is selected in FindTime, FindTime will schedule a Skype for Business or Microsoft Teams meeting. (FindTime will use whichever has been set by your organization as the default online meeting channel.)

Note

If you saved a Skype for Business setting in your Findtime dashboard, FindTime will use that instead of Microsoft Teams. If you want to use Microsoft Teams, delete the Skype for Business setting in your dashboard.

For more information, see Schedule meetings with FindTime.

Authentication requirements

The Teams Meeting add-in requires users to sign in to Teams using Modern Authentication. If users do not use this method to sign in, they'll still be able to use the Teams client, but will be unable to schedule Teams online meetings using the Outlook add-in. You can fix this by doing one of the following:

• If Modern Authentication is not configured for your organization, you should configure Modern Authentication.
• If Modern Authentication is configured, but they canceled out on the dialog box, you should instruct users to sign in again using multi-factor authentication.

To learn more about how to configure authentication, see Identity models and authentication in Microsoft Teams.

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Enable private meetings

Allow scheduling for private meetings must be enabled in the Microsoft Teams admin center for the add-in to get deployed. In the admin center, go to Meetings > Meeting Policies, and in the General section, toggle Allow scheduling private meetings to On.)

The Teams client installs the correct add-in by determining if users need the 32-bit or 64-bit version.

Note

Users might need to restart Outlook after an installation or upgrade of Teams to get the latest add-in.​

Teams upgrade policy and the Teams Meeting add-in for Outlook

Customers can choose their upgrade journey from Skype for Business to Teams. Tenant admins can use the Teams co-existence mode to define this journey for their users. Tenant admins have the option to enable users to use Teams alongside Skype for Business (Islands mode).

When users who are in Island mode schedule a meeting in Outlook, they typically expect to be able to choose whether to schedule a Skype for Business or a Teams meeting. In Outlook on the web, Outlook Windows, and Outlook Mac, users see both Skype for Business and Teams add-ins when in Islands mode by default. You can configure a Teams meeting policy setting to control whether users in Islands mode can only use the Teams Meeting add-in or both the Teams Meeting and Skype for Business Meeting add-ins.

Due to certain limitations in the initial release, Outlook mobile can only support creating Skype for Business or Teams meetings. See the following table for details.

Set whether users in Islands mode can only use the Teams Meeting add-in or both the Teams Meeting and Skype for Business Meeting add-ins

As an admin, you can configure a Teams meeting policy setting to control which Outlook meeting add-in is used for users who are in Islands mode. You can specify whether users can only use the Teams Meeting add-in or both the Teams Meeting and Skype for Business Meeting add-ins to schedule meetings in Outlook.

You can only apply this policy to users who are in Islands mode and have the AllowOutlookAddIn parameter set to True in their Teams meeting policy. For steps on how to set this policy, see set the meeting provider for users in Islands mode.

Other considerations

The Teams Meeting add-in is still building functionality, so be aware of the following:

• The Teams Meeting add-in requires an Exchange mailbox for the primary user scheduling the meeting. Ensure that you have at least one Exchange mailbox configured in your Outlook profile and use it to schedule Teams meetings with the add-in. For Exchange requirements, see How Exchange and Teams interact.
• The add-in is for scheduled meetings with specific participants, not for meetings in a channel. Channel meetings must be scheduled from within Teams.
• The add-in will not work if an Authentication Proxy is in the network path of the user's PC and Teams Services.
• Users can't schedule live events from within Outlook. Go to Teams to schedule live events. For more information, see What are Microsoft Teams live events?.

Learn more about meetings and calling in Microsoft Teams.

Troubleshooting

Use the following steps to troubleshoot issues with the Teams Meeting add-in.

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If you cannot get the Teams Meeting add-in for Outlook to install, try these troubleshooting steps.

Download and run the Microsoft Support Recovery Assistant to perform automated troubleshooting steps and fixes.

Alternatively, perform the following steps manually:

• Windows 7 users must install the Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows for the Teams Meeting add-in to work.
• Check that the user has a Teams Upgrade policy which enables scheduling meetings in Teams. See Upgrade from Skype for Business to Teams for more details.
• Check that the user has a Teams Meeting policy that permits the Outlook Add-in. See Manage meeting policies in Teams for more details.
• Ensure the user has the Teams desktop client installed. The meeting add-in will not be installed when only using the Teams web client.
• Ensure the user has Outlook 2013 or later installed.
• Make sure the user has permission to execute regsvr32.exe.
• Ensure that all available updates for Outlook desktop client have been applied.
• Follow these steps:
  • Restart the Teams desktop client.
  • Sign out and then sign back in to the Teams desktop client.
  • Restart the Outlook desktop client. (Make sure Outlook isn't running in admin mode.)

If you still don't see the add-in, make sure that it isn't disabled in Outlook.

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

For general guidance about how to manage add-ins, see View, manage, and install add-ins in Office programs.

If the add-in still does not show, use the following steps to verify the registry settings.

Note

Incorrectly editing the registry may severely damage your system. Before making changes to the registry, you should back up any valued data on the computer.

• Launch RegEdit.exe
• Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeOutlookAddins
• Verify TeamsAddin.FastConnect exists.
• Within TeamsAddin.FastConnect, verify LoadBehavior exists and is set to 3.
  • If LoadBehavior has a value other than 3, change it to 3 and restart Outlook.

Delegate scheduling does not work

If your administrator has configured Microsoft Exchange to control access to Exchange Web Server (EWS), a delegate won't be able to schedule a Teams meeting on behalf of the boss. The solution for this configuration is under development and will be released in the future. As a workaround, your administrator can add the following string to the EWS Allow List: 'SchedulingService'.

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