Copy a Personal Appt to Group Calendar w/o sending Group Invitations

[Ona Bonsell]

Hello Office Group Fans.

I am well versed with creating a Group calendar event and not sending the invitation to the members of the group (such as days off or other administrative events).  Now, I'd like to be able to copy a calendar event from my personal calendar to the group calendar without sending it to all group members.

Currently, when I copy and paste the event to the group calendar, automatically, invitations are sent to my group members.

Can anyone share any workarounds for this?

Thank you.

[#2]

This is an interesting scenario, and I don't know of a straight forward way to copy an event from your personal calendar and make it an appointment in the Group calendar.

You might just have to create a duplicate appointment in the Group calendar. 

@Maria Kang - if she knows of any graceful way to do this. 

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Hi Ona, 

Could you help me better understand your scenario? So this is what I'm observing: 

1. When you copy an appointment from personal calendar to group calendar, it gets copied as an appointment and no invite gets sent to group members.
2. When you copy a meeting with invitees from personal calendar to group calendar, it gets copied as a meeting and invite gets sent to all group members. 

Is this what you're observing as well? If so, if the question is whether there's a workaround for case #2 (do not send invites to group members when a meeting with invitees from personal calendar gets copied to group calendar), there's no workaround.

-Maria

[#4]

Maria, #2 is the scenario that I'm interested in, in which (per your statement) there is no workaround,

If a manager accepts a personal invitation from a subordinate, it would great if the manager/invitee could copy/paste the personal invite into the Group calendar without sending out a group calendar invite.   Right now, 2 steps have to be done to accomplish this:(

I will add this to the user voice for future consideration.  Thank you.

[#5]

I create the appointment in my personal calendar then drag and drop it to the group calendar inside Outlook for Windows and all is well.

[#6]

yes, I've noticed this works as well. It doesn't send an invitation to everyone in your teams group. I don't understand why MS has to make everything so difficult. We should just be able to add items to a group calendar without sending it to everyone in the group!