This is a natural action for Outlook users that’s replicated millions of times weekly (if not daily).įigure 2: No trace of the Excel attachment appears in the Teams meeting Teams Prefers Cloudy Files We’ve created a Teams meeting in OWA and dragged an XLS attachment to add it to the meeting. So far, the Teams development group hasn’t commented.įigure 1 illustrates the problem. The lack is noted in Teams User Voice and many other complaints in other sites. Despite being a feature supported by Outlook for as long as I can remember, the functionality is not supported by Teams. That is, until you want to attach files to invitations for Teams meetings sent from Outlook. It’s good that Microsoft is upgrading Outlook to make it work better with Teams work. It’s possible for organizations to enforce a policy to make Teams meetings the default for Outlook mobile, Outlook for Mac, and OWA clients and an update to Outlook for Windows will force the same behavior for individual clients. Microsoft is taking steps to encourage Outlook users to make Teams online meetings the norm. Making Teams Meetings the Default for Outlook
