Zoom meeting invitations being sent automatically to participants without the organizer intentionally sending them
Hello,
We are currently experiencing an issue with Zoom meeting invitations being sent automatically to participants without the organizer intentionally sending them.
In our normal workflow, an employee creates a Zoom meeting only a few minutes before it starts and shares the meeting link directly with participants via another chat application (usually through a direct message). The organizer does not send email invitations and often does not even know the participants’ email addresses.
However, we have observed that email invitations are still being sent from Zoom to certain users as if the organizer sent them, sometimes including reminders and occasionally arriving after the meeting has already finished. The organizer did not add these email addresses when creating the meeting.
One possibility we are considering is that the Zoom account is linked to a Google account, which may have access to contacts or calendar data and could be automatically generating and sending these invitations.
Could you please help clarify the following:
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Can a Zoom account linked to a Google account automatically send meeting invitations to contacts or calendar participants?
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Is there a Zoom or Google Calendar setting that could cause invitations to be sent automatically without the organizer explicitly adding participants?
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Is it recommended to unlink the Zoom account from the Google account to prevent this behavior, or is there a specific setting that can disable automatic invitation sending?
The employee currently has an active paid Zoom subscription for a few more weeks, so we would like to understand the correct configuration before making changes to the account.
Thank you for your assistance.
Kind regards,