Microsoft 365 automatically adds a Teams meeting by default, but our organization prefers to use Zoom and Slack.
As an individual user, you can disable automatically adding teams meetings in the following places:
- Microsoft 365 Online Calendar
- Outlook Mac Desktop Client
- For Microsoft 365 Organization Admins (Powershell)
Microsoft 365 Online Calendar
- Go here https://outlook.office.com/mail/
- Click the Gear at the top right to go to settings
- Click “View all Outlook Settings” at the bottom
![Opening Microsoft 365 Outlook settings](https://www.gregmicek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Microsoft-365-Outlook-settings-250x1024.png)
4. Once settings are open, click on “Calendar” on the left and then uncheck “Add online meeting to all meetings”
![Microsoft 365 outlook calendar disable automatic teams meeting](https://www.gregmicek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Microsoft-365-outlook-calendar-disable-teams-meeting-1024x430.png)
5. Teams meetings should no longer automatically be added to Outlook Calendar Meetings
Outlook Mac Desktop Client
- Open the Mac Outlook desktop client
- In the Mac menu at the top, click “Outlook” > “Preferences”
- Click “Calendar”
![](https://www.gregmicek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Microsoft-Outlook-Mac-Preferences-Settings.png)
4. Uncheck “Add online meeting to all meetings (Applies to Microsoft 365 accounts only)”
![](https://www.gregmicek.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Microsoft-Outlook-Desktop-Disable-Teams-Meetings.png)
Voila, you should no longer have Teams meetings automatically added when creating a meeting through Microsoft 365 (M365) or Outlook
For Microsoft 365 Organization Admins (Powershell)
You can disable this feature at the organization level with the following command for Powershell
Set-OrganizationConfig -OnlineMeetingsByDefaultEnabled $False
reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-organizationconfig?view=exchange-ps