How can I plan a meeting out of a group chat, where the original group chat becomes the meeting chat?

Hello @Benjamin Obst,   

Good day! Thank you for posting your valuable question on Microsoft Q&A forum.  

You're absolutely right to be concern about this problem, as it is a known behavior in Microsoft Teams: 

• "Meet Now" in a Group Chat: When you click "Meet Now" from a group chat, the meeting is directly tied to that chat. Everyone in the chat is invited, and the meeting chat is the same as the group chat. 
• Scheduled Meeting from a Group Chat: When you schedule a meeting (even from within a group chat), Teams creates a new meeting object with its own separate meeting chat. This is by design, since scheduled meetings are treated as standalone events. 

Unfortunately, you can't directly link a scheduled meeting to an existing group chat in a way that makes the group chat the meeting chat. But here are a few workarounds: 

Use “Meet Now” and Copy the Link

This keeps the meeting chat tied to the group chat. 

• Go to the group chat. 
• Click Meet Now. 
• Copy the meeting link and send it to participants or add it to a calendar invite manually.  

Schedule the Meeting and Use the Group Chat for Discussion

• Schedule the meeting as usual. 
• Use the original group chat for pre- and post-meeting discussions. 
• You can paste the meeting link into the group chat for quick entering. 

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