Show declined events on the calendar

Good functionnality I think. Thanks.

Teresa_Cyrus, we are pushing hard to complete the new filtering improvements as a fast follow and important complement to the new preserved declined meetings feature, because we understand that power users can suffer with calendar cluttering and we want to help relieve that pain.

I would not be surprised if we release the new filtering improvements still this year.

Giovanni 

@Gio, thanks for the quick response. The improvements you mentioned are perfect! Any idea when they'll be rolled out?

That is a good suggestion, Teresa_Cyrus!

On this initial launch of the feature, users will be able to show/hide all declined meetings by tweaking the "Filter" tool in the ribbon. Unfortunately, it will apply to all declined meetings together, and not just a subset of them. 

Since it seems you want to keep/preserve all your declined meetings, but selectively choose which ones to show/hide on the calendar surface, I do have some good news for you. It is not exactly what you are suggesting, but it will empower you to achieve similar results. We are finishing up some improvements to the Filter feature which will include persistence (your filtered settings do not get reset between sessions) and multiselect (you can combine multiple filter options). This means you will soon be able to apply different categories to the declined meetings you want and don't want to see, and then use the new filtering capabilities to show/hide just those subsets of declined meetings you care about.

As soon as the new filtering improvements are publicly available, I will come back here to announce them. I hope they help you! And if they don't, we will keep our minds open for feedback like yours on further potential improvements for declined meetings.

rgds,

Gio

Feature Suggestion:
Once this feature is enabled, when I decline an event, it appears on my calendar entirely in white. However, I would like the option to have specific declined events appear on my calendar.

To make this more user-friendly, I suggest adding a show/hide box next to each declined event on the calendar from the RSVP dialog box. This way, I can pick and choose which declined events to show by simply checking the box, rather than having to manually remove them.

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Thanks for the information Giovanni 

Hello AndresGorzelany .

Yes, there is a way for tenant admins to force PDM OFF for all users in a tenant via a cmdlet: Set-CalendarSettings <tenant-name> -EnablePreserveDeclinedMeetings $false. The result is that no user will see the toggle in (OWA or new Outlook Desktop) Settings to turn PDM on anymore. And for the users that had already turned PDM on manually before the admin ran the cmdlet, the admin's tenant setting will override the user's individual setting. 

However, there is no admin-side switch to force/override PDM ON for all users in your tenant. We made this call on purpose for usability reasons for now. We can reassess the decision later as user feedback come in.

Additionally, FYI, in the long run, our intention is also to have PDM enabled by default for all users in all tenants as a core standard functionality across all Outlook clients. In this case, there will be no more user settings toggle and no more admin cmdlet to force it off.

regards,

Gio

Hello,

So, there is no admin-side switch to turn this off/on?

Thanks,