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Tracking meeting response visible to all participants
I have been searching around for this answer but I cannot find it. I recently discovered that every participant of a meeting can see the tracking status (accept/decline/tentative/no response) in Outlook on the Web of all participants and not just the organizer.
So you can actually see who has accepted the meeting, even if you are not the organizer.
When was this feature introduced and are there controls in place to change this behavior? Is there maybe somewhere documented about this?
Hi Joost,
Yes -- this feature is still in development, and we're planning to release it in Q4 of this year.
The final remaining pieces are for the Outlook on Windows client to show the Tracking tab to meeting attendees (currently it's only shown to meeting organizers), and to properly track responses sent from the Outlook on Windows clients.
More details
There are 2 attendee response properties: (1) the RecipientsList table that has each recipient and their individual response, and (2) the property used in MailTips to say "You accepted this meeting on September 21st."
When we enabled the Tracking tab for attendees in the Outlook on Windows client, we discovered that Outlook on Windows was setting only property #2. We're working on how to detect changes in property #2, and when we detect that change, we will update property #1 (so your own response shows correctly when you view the invitation) and then updating attendees' copies (so your response is shown correctly to others). Right now, we have it working for one-off meetings but we are fixing some issues with the way responses are detected for series vs. instances of a series.
- Julia Foran
Microsoft
Hi Joost,
Yes -- this feature is still in development, and we're planning to release it in Q4 of this year.
The final remaining pieces are for the Outlook on Windows client to show the Tracking tab to meeting attendees (currently it's only shown to meeting organizers), and to properly track responses sent from the Outlook on Windows clients.
More details
There are 2 attendee response properties: (1) the RecipientsList table that has each recipient and their individual response, and (2) the property used in MailTips to say "You accepted this meeting on September 21st."
When we enabled the Tracking tab for attendees in the Outlook on Windows client, we discovered that Outlook on Windows was setting only property #2. We're working on how to detect changes in property #2, and when we detect that change, we will update property #1 (so your own response shows correctly when you view the invitation) and then updating attendees' copies (so your response is shown correctly to others). Right now, we have it working for one-off meetings but we are fixing some issues with the way responses are detected for series vs. instances of a series.
Good to know. So you are working on bringing this to Outlook and it is already available in Outlook on the Web.
Is this something we can control, so as admins we decide if we want to show responses to all participants or only to the organizer?
- Julia Foran
Hi Joost, there won't be a way for admins to disable this for the tenant. In the future, we might allow the meeting organizers to choose if others can see the attendee repsonses/attendee list on a per-meeting basis but we don't have any concrete plans for that work.
It's another recent improvement the team of Julia Foran made, she can share more info.
