outlook: Stop requesting unsupported online meetings (INB-333)

[bahmd]

The link cannot be generated, and that is the finding

Microsoft Graph does not support creating online meetings on personal Outlook.com accounts through the events API. Setting isOnlineMeeting: true with an onlineMeetingProvider is silently ignored on consumer calendars: the event is created with isOnlineMeeting: false and onlineMeeting: null, and no join URL is ever produced. Personal accounts expose skypeForConsumer at most, and per Microsoft "even that doesn't work for event creation."

The /me/onlineMeetings alternative suggested in the ticket does not help either — it is a Teams API and requires a work or school account.

This is why #3339 did not fix the issue. That PR correctly read allowedOnlineMeetingProviders, selected a provider, and passed it through, but the provider it lands on for a personal account (skypeForConsumer) is one Graph will not act on. No code change in this repository can make a Teams link appear for a personal Outlook account.

What this PR does

It stops the product from doing pointless, slow work and makes the reason visible:

• Treat skypeForConsumer and unknown as providers that cannot generate a link. When one is selected, skip the online-meeting request entirely, along with the refetch → patch → second poll chain that followed it. That chain sleeps up to 3.5s per booking and could never succeed.
• Keep requesting skypeForBusiness, which work and school calendars can honour, so business accounts are unaffected.
• Log the selected provider so the cause is visible in a warning rather than inferred.

The host already receives a "Microsoft Teams link was not generated" notice from sendBookingConfirmationEmails, so the booking still completes and the host is told.

Validation

• Replaced the test that asserted skypeForConsumer is requested and returns a Skype join URL — it encoded behaviour the real API does not have.
• Added coverage that a personal calendar gets no online-meeting request and no retry chain, and that skypeForBusiness is still requested.
• utils/calendar and utils/booking suites pass: 18 files, 134 tests.

What still needs a product decision

This PR makes the failure fast and legible, but the underlying problem is that a host on a personal Outlook account can still choose "Microsoft Teams" as a booking-link location, and we cannot deliver it. Two follow-ups worth considering:

1. Do not offer Microsoft Teams as a location type for personal Outlook accounts. getProviderVideoLocationType derives the type from google/microsoft alone, with no personal-vs-work distinction, so this needs account-type detection at booking-link configuration time. That is the real fix for the reported experience.
2. The guest is not told. The host sees "link was not generated", but the guest's confirmation still shows the location as "Microsoft Teams" with no link and no explanation, so the guest has no way to join. Changing that copy is a product call.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Microsoft consumer calendars no longer attempt to create unsupported online meetings or attach invalid meeting details.
  • Microsoft Teams requests now correctly handle calendars that cannot provide a join link.
  • Calendar locations now accurately reflect when Microsoft Teams was requested.
  • Skype for Business work calendars continue to support online meeting creation with the appropriate provider.
  • Event details no longer trigger unnecessary follow-up updates when consumer calendars cannot host online meetings.

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Walkthrough

Microsoft calendar event creation now excludes online-meeting fields for unsupported consumer providers. Provider selection rejects unsupported providers inline. Event location follows Teams requests. Tests cover consumer and Skype for Business calendars.

Changes

Microsoft calendar provider handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider selection and support rules apps/web/utils/calendar/providers/microsoft-events.ts	The provider selection logic rejects skypeForConsumer and unknown. It prefers Microsoft Teams when allowed and otherwise uses the calendar default.
Event creation behavior and validation apps/web/utils/calendar/providers/microsoft-events.ts, apps/web/utils/calendar/providers/microsoft-events.test.ts	Event location now depends on whether Teams was requested. Consumer calendars omit online-meeting fields and skip refetch and patch operations. Skype for Business work calendars still request online meetings.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 3b01d

If Microsoft calendar capability detection fails, the booking flow may still attempt Teams-link generation and perform unnecessary follow-up work, potentially misrepresenting support for that calendar. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for this bounded fallback behavior.

Suggested reviewers: elie222, gentlemandev

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: Outlook no longer requests unsupported online meetings. The issue identifier is relevant and does not obscure the description.
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Inline comments:
In `@apps/web/utils/calendar/providers/microsoft-events.ts`:
- Around line 320-323: Update getOnlineMeetingFields so a null result from
getCalendarOnlineMeetingSettings is not treated as Microsoft Teams support;
preserve the lookup-failure state separately and omit Teams online-meeting
fields in that case, while retaining the existing provider selection for
settings that explicitly allow MICROSOFT_TEAMS_PROVIDER.

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