How to handle meetings organized by deleted users?

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Hi Community,&nbsp;there is that nearly-all-time known limitation that Exchange / Exchange Online can't change the organizer of a meeting.That is really driving me mad in real life...imagine a team assistant leaving the company after having that up meeting series for the whole team / company including meeting room reservations etc...&nbsp;How are you handling this limit in your real-life?&nbsp;Best,M.

guilhermelimait · Answer

Hi&nbsp;oliwer_sundgren&nbsp;, great addition,I would like to recommend to vote on this one too:&nbsp;&nbsp;https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/38825380-recurring-meetings-option-to-end-recurrence-as-al&nbsp;&nbsp;It is an option to end the recurrences if needed.KR

vasilmichev · Answer

Some orgs simply keep the account active and use it to cancel/reschedule the meetings. Other just delete them (only thing you can do programmatically) and create the new meetings.
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oliwer_sundgren · Answer

matthias_fleschuetz_ntt&nbsp;I couldnt agree more 🙂&nbsp;Hopefully Microsoft finds a good way to resolve this, since its a very common scenario.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you havent already, I suggest voting for this, and other organizer realted user voices&nbsp;https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/34639159-change-ownership-of-calendar-event-in-outlook-2016&nbsp;&nbsp;

oliwer_sundgren · Answer

Hellomatthias_fleschuetz_ntt&nbsp;&nbsp;I usually keep the accounts around for about 30 days before deletion.&nbsp;During this time, I eitherLogin to the mailbox of the retired/deleted user and cancel the meeting, and then inform the team to create a new recurring meeting with a new organizerUse PowerShell to delete/cancel all the calendar events of the deleted/retired user and then inform the team that they need to create a new recurring meeting.&nbsp;Sadly there is no way ( that I know of ) to change the organizer of a meeting, probably because its tied to the organizers mailbox/calendar&nbsp;Kind RegardsOliwer Sjöberg

matthias_fleschuetz_ntt · Answer

oliwer_sundgren&nbsp;Thanks, I assumed something like that...but somehow really sad as offboardings / responsibility changes shouldn't be something so rare in corporate / enterprise environments.I would somehow expect a good and integrated featureset for this usecase from a professional solution?E.g. OneDrive / Sharepoint has this in place by using the manager field to grant access to the personal file space when a user is deleted. Even with fallback to a centralized email address if manager field is blank...

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