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How to handle meetings organized by deleted users?
Hi Community, 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 ...
I usually keep the accounts around for about 30 days before deletion.
During this time, I either
- Login 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 organizer
- Use 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.
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
Kind Regards
Oliwer Sjöberg
oliwer_sundgren 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...
matthias_fleschuetz_ntt
I couldnt agree more 🙂
Hopefully Microsoft finds a good way to resolve this, since its a very common scenario.If you havent already, I suggest voting for this, and other organizer realted user voices
Hi oliwer_sundgren , great addition,
I would like to recommend to vote on this one too:
It is an option to end the recurrences if needed.
KR
