Sep 17 2018 04:33 PM
Have a user in the office that can't create a calendar item with invitees. She receives the following error in an email when sending the calendar invite in Outlook app or OWA with the invitees never getting the invite. Happens to both internal and external invitees.
Remote Server returned '554 5.6.0 STOREDRV.Submit.Exception:InvalidParticipantException; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Participant is invalid: "Can't parse a participant from string """. Validation status: InvalidAddressFormat. InvalidParticipantException: Participant is invalid: "Can't parse a participant from string """. Validation status: InvalidAddressFormat.'
Anyone know what maybe going on? We have office 365, latest version Outlook.
Sep 17 2018 11:11 PM
Judging from the fact that both OWA and Outlook have the same issue, and the error message itself, there seems to be some misconfiguration with the user account/mailbox, most likely one of the email aliases. Review them, if you don't find anything interesting in the list you can always open a support case.
Sep 18 2018 12:24 PM - edited Sep 18 2018 12:26 PM
Nothing out of the ordinary with the email aliases unfortunately.
I have mostly had bad experiences creating cases with Office 365 support which is why I decided to try the forums here.
I think I may have found a solution to the problem and it actually happens to all users in the office. When creating a meeting on another users calendar, make sure "Allow Forwarding" is checked within "Response Options" when adding invitees and sending out the invite. This appears to be a new feature which was introduced with Outlook version 1808 because users in the office with older versions of Outlook don't even have this options.
Will report back if it comes up again, but so far the user has been making calendar events all day with no more issues.
Sep 20 2018 06:44 AM
That option actually makes sense, and in general this scenario should be something that @Julia Foran
and the relevant team should have looked into when designing the new forwarding feature. Let's wait for her to confirm whether this is a bug or the expected behavior now.
Sep 20 2018 07:20 AM
SolutionNov 07 2018 06:46 AM
Julia, when you say old model and new model, what are you referring to exactly?
I have an executive who has a delegate. The executive does not want his meetings forwarded and his delegate sets up all of his meetings. In this scenario, will unchecking the "Allow Forwarding" feature to work? If not, are there any other options?
Nov 07 2018 11:22 AM
Nov 07 2018 01:28 PM
Hi Julia,
Just tried changing to "Can Edit" but I got the same result. Undeliverable email. So we are going to try using OWA because that seems to work. Thanks so much for the speedy reply.
Nov 13 2018 10:54 AM
We also are getting this behavior. I also re-added user editor permission and tried and it didn't solve the issue. It would have been nice to create better fail messages. As these errors don't seem to match up with the error that occurred.
Dec 13 2018 09:20 AM
@Julia ForanCan you send me the link to the video of this Ignite presentation?
So have new delegates that the allow forward is not turned on when they create a meeting. Once its on, its on it seems. Is this an expected feature for everyone (off by default).
What if they really don't want the meeting to have allow forwarding turned on? I tested on a different calendar and it fails. This isn't good.
Dec 13 2018 10:41 AM
Feb 07 2019 08:09 AM
Thanks a lot for your clear response. Help me a lot with a customer.
They had exactly the error above and watching the video (Ignite) and following your instruction solved the problem.
Efrem
Sep 20 2018 07:20 AM
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