Teams meetings keep automatically adding, cannot remove once sent (and, yes, I've had the Setting turned off)

Question

Even though I have the setting turned off to where Teams should NOT be automatically adding itself to meetings, sometimes it does it anyway once I've hit send. Sometimes, it pops up while I'm creating the invite and I'm able to click "Don't Host Online." But how is it possible that nothing is added until I've hit send?
For example: When I was creating this one invite 9I tried attaching a screenshot but it keeps failing to upload), I hovered over Teams to ensure a Teams meeting wasn't created. Luckily for me, the only thing hovering over the Teams button did was say "Create new Teams meeting," Rather than allowing me to click on Teams and say, "Don't Host Online." This proved to me that it worked, but once I hit Send, there was suddenly a Teams meeting attached to the invite. And now that it's sent to everyone, I cannot remove it. Which means I have to cancel the meeting and start al over again, hoping that Outlook operates correctly this time. It's frustrating and embarrassing to have to send, cancel, and re-send invites to all of these people.

I've hunted down various forums, blog posts, and YouTube videos all discussing this issue. They all recommend just unclicking that setting I discussed, but their comments section all have multiple people with my exact same problem. Even with the setting turned off, sometimes once "Send invite" is hit, Teams gets added.

Edited to say: I figured out how to remove the Teams invite once I sent, but that still doesn't resolve the issue that Teams keeps adding itself.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hello, LB82223.

Thanks for reaching out to our Microsoft Community Forum. Please accept our warmest regards and sincerest hope that all is well.

We understand that you would like to stop Microsoft Teams from adding itself to Outlook meeting invites you've created.

So, the settings applying correctly depends on the version of Microsoft Teams. What add-ins you have enabled in Outlook could also affect that. With that in mind, can you tell me what version of Microsoft Teams are you using the steps in the guide below?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/find-the-version-of-microsoft-teams-you-re-using-e6d3421f-b4f2-4fc6-a69e-ebc528fb1216

Also, have you tried checking if the Teams add-in is enabled in your Outlook? You can do this by going to File > Options > Add-ins > Manage COM Add-ins, and then checking if the Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office is enabled. If it is, you can try disabling it and see if that resolves the issue.

It that does not work, you will have repair Office and by extension Outlook using the steps in the link below. If all else fails, a reinstall of Office might be necessary as mentioned in the same link.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/repair-an-office-application-7821d4b6-7c1d-4205-aa0e-a6b40c5bb88b

Feel free to reply to this thread if you need further clarification or further help.

Sincerely,

Glenn Rue

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Microsoft Community