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Office 365 (Apple iCal/Calendar) - Invite Groups

Best Effort Support Only

This document contains instructions on using a non-Microsoft email client, such as Apple Mail or Thunderbird. Microsoft does not recommend these clients for use with Office 365, and there are often significant limitations in client functionality as a result. Because of this, the DoIT Help Desk is only able to offer best effort support for these clients, and certain issues may require the use of a Microsoft client in order to be resolved. For more information on Office 365 client support, please see: Office 365 - Which clients/protocols will be supported?

Invite Groups

To invite a Group that exists in the Address Book (Mac OS 10.5-7) or Contacts (Mac OS 10.8) application:

• From the menu bar in iCal or Calendar, select Window then either Address Book or Contacts.
• Click a group to show its members.
• On your keyboard type CTRL-A to select all the group members (or from the menu bar select Edit -> Select All).

  

• Click-and-Drag the selected address book entries to some day/time on the iCal/Calendar window. iCal/Calendar will create a new meeting with the selected entries.

  

  NOTE - you cannot do this by dragging the group name. You must click on the group to show its members, select them, then drag the selected members to the iCal/Calendar window.
• Proceed from here to modify the event's options before sending the invitations to the group members you added.

  

See Also:

• Office 365 - Support for non-Microsoft clients
• Office 365 - Which clients/protocols will be supported?
• Office 365 - Exchange Online Basic Authentication Overview
• Office 365 - Set up your mobile device or desktop client