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Julia Foran
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Feb 03, 2018
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Accept & Do Not Send a Response

Hi Calendar Community, We'd like your feedback & reactions to a change we're considering:   Current experience: When attendees receive a meeting invite, they are provided with 3 response opti...
  • JackSmith's avatar
    JackSmith
    Jul 25, 2019

    Julia Foran 

     

    What's the status of this change to allow for tracking the response if the user selects "Accept Do Not Send a response"?

     

    Thank you - Jack

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Michael Barr
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Apr 05, 2018

1.  Yes. The confusion the current behavior causes was so great we recently REMOVED the 'do not send a reply' option through GPO.  Although we'd like to avoid the clutter of unnecessary emails, the attendance tracking is essential.

 

2. Yes.  Again, attendance tracking is essential.  Even if the organizer doesn't care about attendee acceptance, the presence of the tracking data seems harmless and simply be ignored.

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    Praveen Kumar
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    Aug 26, 2020

    Michael Barr 

     

    could you help how to disable "Do Not Send a reply" option through GPO?

     

    Regards,

     

    PK.

    • Michael Barr's avatar
      Michael Barr
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 26, 2020

      Praveen Kumar ,

      Use GPO or any other method you have to push the following registry setting:

      HiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER
      Key pathSoftware\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar
      Value nameForceMtgResponse
      Value typeREG_DWORD
      Value data0x1 (1)
      • Praveen Kumar's avatar
        Praveen Kumar
        Copper Contributor
        Aug 27, 2020

        Thanks for details.

  • jfrish's avatar
    jfrish
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 20, 2019

    Did you use the control ID's to accomplish this?  Or a different route?  If so which controlID's did you use?

  • Julia Foran's avatar
    Julia Foran
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    Apr 05, 2018

    Thanks for all the feedback, everybody! We're going to start on this improvement very soon. :-)

    • Katherine_J's avatar
      Katherine_J
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 06, 2023

      Julia Foran Please can you let me know if this improvement to response tracking is available in Outlook destop versions yet? 

    • Jen4rmtheblock's avatar
      Jen4rmtheblock
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 18, 2021
      Has this been implemented yet? I would like to send a meeting and allow responses for the tracking tab but not received any addition info or notes. Thanks
    • Brandon Little's avatar
      Brandon Little
      Brass Contributor
      Nov 07, 2019

      Any news on this?  Last update was 2018 and this would be a great change for us.  We do a lot of lunch and learns and email 400 people in the office.  I don't want 400 emails coming my way but I'd really like to know who's actually coming by checking the scheduling assistant.

       

      Thanks,

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