how to link an email to teams

To link your email to Microsoft Teams and ensure that invites received via email show up in your Teams calendar, you can follow these steps:

1. Connect Your Existing Email System: You can connect your existing email system to Microsoft Teams Essentials. This will allow you to manage Teams meetings and ensure that calendar events sync properly. You can find the configuration steps in the guide for connecting Microsoft Teams Essentials to an existing email system.
2. Check Email Sync Settings: If you're using Google Workspace, you can enable bidirectional syncing with Microsoft Teams. Make sure that your email and calendar are properly set up to sync with Teams.
3. Reset Your Password: If you're having trouble signing in due to security factors, you may need to reset your password. Since you no longer have the phone set up for recovery codes, you can try to recover your account by following the instructions on the Microsoft account recovery page. You may need to provide alternative verification methods, such as an alternate email address.
4. Sign In with Your Business Email: Ensure that you are signing into Teams with your business email address that is connected to your existing email system. This will help in syncing your calendar and receiving invites correctly.

If you continue to have issues, consider reaching out to your IT administrator for further assistance, especially if your email is tied to a work account.

References:

• Integrating your business email with Microsoft Teams
• Connect Microsoft Teams Essentials to an existing email system with calendar

Hello,

It sounds like you are using a third party email address, as the sign-in username/alias for your Microsoft account. Is that correct?

When your Microsoft account uses a non-Microsoft email address, it does not have its own email functionality. The actual sending and receiving of emails still happens through your third party email provider. As a result, when you receive a meeting invitation through Teams, it goes to your third party email address and its calendar.

If your want the meeting invite to show up in Teams' calendar, you would need to give your Microsoft account a native Microsoft domain address, such as outlook.com.

Go to https://account.live.com and sign in to your personal account.

Click on "Your Info," then choose "Sign-in preferences," and select "Add an alias."

Choose to create a new alias. It will allow you to create one that's outlook.com.

After creating it, set it as your primary alias.

Keep your current third party email as a secondary alias. Do not remove it.

You can then check emails at https://www.outlook.com. If you prefer, you can also enable email forwarding in the settings so that all messages go to your usual email address and you do not have to check multiple inboxes.