Accept Teams meeting invitation on behalf of users

[Guest Guest]

We have remote training on Tuesday with our SLT and MLT on site and everyone else working from home.

 

Invitations were sent out for this on the last day of term and we've only had roughly 40 of 120 responses to the invitation.

 

Im assuming this probably isn't possible but is it possible to accept the invitation on behalf of users via powershell or other means?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated

[HPlum78]

So there is a way to do this via a graph API call see here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/event-accept?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

 

Not sure that this would be the approach I would take mind, if your invited to a meeting and do not accept/ or indeed decline the meeting request this is up to the attendee no? Just because you accept it on their behalf mean that they have to attend?

 

Just thinking out loud there...

Edited August 29, 2020 by HPlum78

[Guest Guest]

This is mandatory training so they have no real choice.

 

This is more to reduce workload for myself as most staff haven't used Teams and have no idea how it works. We already expect to have a large number of requests for password resets etc and I still have work to complete from the summer

[HPlum78]

Yeah fair point, so yeah the graph API and powershell can certainly do this. Just feed in a list of the attendees for your script and iterate through that list just make sure you have some error trapping and check the return code from the call.

[HPlum78]

Sorry someone has just said that I talk about using graph calls all the time in scripts to "get/ do stuff" in office and azure tenants and never go into how to do this. My preferred method is via PowerShell but I have been known to use other methods and languages, i will if needs be do a bit of a step by step/ deep dive on how to accomplish tasks using the Graph API and Powershell along with what is needed from an azure configuration perspective if that would help anyone, let me know...

[Guest Guest]

Sorry someone has just said that I talk about using graph calls all the time in scripts to "get/ do stuff" in office and azure tenants and never go into how to do this. My preferred method is via PowerShell but I have been known to use other methods and languages, i will if needs be do a bit of a step by step/ deep dive on how to accomplish tasks using the Graph API and Powershell along with what is needed from an azure configuration perspective if that would help anyone, let me know...

That'd be great.. To be honest I haven't got the slightest as to how to do what you suggested