Is there a way to update the attendees of a meeting without sending an update to the entire group?

This doesn't work. It's also bad design. I hit "Send Update" and grit my teeth... for good reason, because it spams the entire group. Hundreds of unnecessary updates interrupting people's work. Please fix this. Why would you have a "Send Update" button that either spams everyone, or then brings you to an optional update screen???? Why can't you make it possible to edit the group attendance without making it so difficult? This seems such a glaring design flaw, that I can't believe it's still implemented so clumsily. For me to waste an hour unsuccessfully finding a way to do this simple thing, as a tech savvy person, is bonkers.

I'm using Microsoft Outlook. The platform you'd think would be the cleanest version of this method.

Why can't I do this in Outlook?
Why can't I do this in Teams?

I completely agree with every word Michael says.

I am using "New Outlook" in M365 and one big (and dumb!) difference from the "old" version is that you don't get the "Send only to added/removed participants" option. So when I add a participant, the update is sent to all participants.

This means that not only do everybody get the invitation again. Everybody will actually be asked to RSVP to the meeting again! Or, if you check the "don't request replies" option, you suddenly can't see who have responded earlier.

How is it even possible that this happened?!?

From your calendar

Right-click on the event

Click Forward

Add new participants

It should forward the invite to the specific participants you added. You will get an automated email saying "Your meeting was forwarded" to those participants. You will then start to receive notifications that new participants have accepted your meeting.

I hope this helps! I just figured it out!

Agree with Michael also. This does not work. It literally asks me this, I choose only updated people, and then outlook sends it to everyone anyway.

Has anyone figured out a work around yet? This is a problem that should not exist today. Sounds like an issue from 1998.

Hi, I find this functionality also very crucial and looking forward to getting a quick solution on this.

We have monthly info meetings for personnel (hundreds of participants) and it´s annoying when you only would like to add couple of new participants, but the invitation will be sent to them all.