Teams meeting button not showing up in outlook

IBN 4,376

Hello Teams Community,

I have a user who reported this issue to us.

He was trying to schedule a teams meeting on Outlook but he cant find the Team meeting option button.

Tim Farnsworth 16 Reputation points

2022-08-05T12:20:27.637+00:00

I had this recently, I went to files>options>add-ins and the Teams meeting add-in was showing as disabled. If you choose manage disabled addins at the bottom and click go you can turn it on then restart outlook. This worked but a few mins later I got an alert saying it had been disabled again because it delayed opening a meeting request by 0.7secs, when I clicked on the alert I got an option to always enable this addin which I chose and now it seems to be working ok

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JimmyYang-MSFT 50,446 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2022-03-17T06:45:19.507+00:00
Hi @IBN

Does this problem only happened in this specific users?

If you still don’t see the add-in, make sure that it isn’t disabled in Outlook.

In Outlook, choose File and then Options.

Select the Add-ins tab of Outlook Options dialog box.

Confirm that Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office is listed in the Active Application Add-ins list

If the Teams Meeting Add-in is listed in the Disabled Application Add-ins list, select COM Add-ins in Manage and then select Go…

Set the checkbox next to Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office.

Choose OK on all dialog boxes and restart Outlook.

For more details about its troubleshooting, you could refer to this article.

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Harshad Shah 16 Reputation points

2022-08-16T22:28:45.843+00:00

Step 4 will not work.

In Manage, select the drop-down, select Disabled Items and click Go.

In Disabled Items dialog box, select every entry which has teams anywhere in the line (Press Ctrl key to select multiple entries

Click Enable

Change Dropdown to COM Add-Ins and click GO

In the COM Add-ins dialog box, ensure "Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft VBA for Outlook Addin" are both checked

Other items may also checked. Click OK

For the settings change to take effect, all open Outlook windows must be closed.

After waiting around 30 secs, relaunch Outlook

Select Calendar and then the Home ribbon will now have the "New Teams Meeting" icon

P.S. Microsoft VBA for Outlook Addin is needed so that link to join a meeting is the nice 2Click here to join the meeting" and not a long ugly URL link

Balu 1 Reputation point

2022-08-24T05:09:16.43+00:00

Not resolved the issue.

Mohammad, Mir 1 Reputation point

2022-09-15T15:12:43.5+00:00

In the COM Add-ins dialog box it shows no add-ins.
There are no Add-ins in the disabled add-ins list.

Biljana Solakovska-Mihajlovska 0 Reputation points

2023-01-24T13:08:31.4333333+00:00

Thanks for sharing these instructions, Harshad, It helped me right according to your instructions!

Abdul Rasheed 0 Reputation points

2023-10-12T06:28:31.98+00:00

The new MS Teams is not integrating with MS Office Outlook meeting scheduling window. We have to install Classic Teams which worked perfectly.

The link to download is https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2187327
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Vayinapalli, KaliPrasad 16 Reputation points

2022-11-10T15:53:00.3+00:00

One Option that make this work after several attempts was:

Selecting Mange Dropdown in Options->"Add-in"->Mange(dropdown)->"Disabled Items" and click GO
On the next screen select "Microsoft Teams Meeting Add-in for Microsoft Office" option in the list and click enable.

Restart Outlook and u can see "Teams Meeting" available.
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Baugh David 0 Reputation points

2023-02-03T14:27:32.8666667+00:00

Thanks Vayinapalli, KaliPrasad • this was very helpful it restored the Team selection in the Ribbon.

Richard Harris 0 Reputation points

2023-08-31T10:05:02.99+00:00

this worked needs more upvotes
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Sebastian Rodriguez 11 Reputation points

2022-06-14T11:28:05.147+00:00

I experiencing the same issue, MS Teams option not showing up on my Outlook. When following the steps above, this doesn;t resolve the issue.
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Harshad Shah 16 Reputation points

2022-08-16T22:29:59.857+00:00

see my comments above

Tad Burkhart 1 Reputation point

2022-09-20T22:00:22.883+00:00

The above options do not fix all situations. In my case, Outlook disabled Teams add in for slow performance. If this happens follow these steps.

In Outlook, choose File

In the main window, click on "Manage COM Add-ins" button next to "Slow and Disabled COM Add-ins"
NOTE: You will likely see the Teams add-in listed as disabled for slow performance,

Click on the "Options" drop down

Select option to "Always enable this add-in"

May need to Close/Restart Outlook

This will enable Teams add-in and prevent it from being disabled for slow performance in the future.

BELLIN Nicolas 0 Reputation points

2023-03-20T13:04:01.5366667+00:00

Thanks! The only way that solved my problem :)
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Oz 6 Reputation points

2022-08-02T15:02:08.177+00:00

What seemed to work for me was to do the full online repair of the MS Office suite.
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Andrew Ginter 5 Reputation points

2023-11-20T20:18:46.8266667+00:00

I had the same problem, but it was the version of Teams that was the problem. I had searched the Microsoft site and found teams for work & school, installed it and it let me log into my work Teams account, but would not bring up the Teams icon. Outlook apps/add-ins showed no Teams at all - not enabled, not disabled, nothing. So I uninstalled both old Teams and the new one (right-click-uninstall on the Start menu, not Control Panel/Programs and Features). Then logged into my office365 account on the website. Navigated to the web-based Teams app. Clicked on "..." at the upper right of that app and selected "download desktop app". This time it came as a .exe, not an MSI file. Ran that and the icon showed up in Outlook.
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Nate 0 Reputation points

2024-02-15T17:54:44.37+00:00

Worked for me.

Before that though I also removed my account cache under %appdata%, that being:
AppData\Roaming\Teams
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Teams After downloading and installing the desktop app from teams.microsoft.com, I now have two versions installed.

Microsoft Teams Classic
Microsoft Teams (work or school)

And I also did the install of Office from being signed in at office.com, then downloading the PC app from the "Install and more" menu at the top right.

So now I have both the old and new Teams, and the old and new Outlook .
Teams Meeting has returned as an option in a new meeting in both offices!

Aside from all my lists at the left being double-spaced and having to scroll way more, I think everything's working and I'll be "fine" now.

(Seriously though, what's up with list items being spaced like that, and list categories being too visually similar to list items? Same with OneNote. That really should have a "compact" option because forcing to be "expanded" is just garbage.)
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