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Outlook Calendar in MS Office Professional Plus 2016 (version 1803). Hello, this problem has just started (Friday 20/4) ... If I click and drag an appointment (diary entry) to move it on iPhone in iOS Mail app, it turns the appointment into a meeting and wants to send attendees an email. I'm the only attendee as I created what is basically a diary entry (appointment). So I get notifications that a 'meeting' has changed AND I get an email. It's crazy. It's all ok when I use the Office Outlook app on PC so it could be an issue with iOS??? It syncs all the appointments back to Outlook as meetings so I have to clear notifications and emails on PC and iPhone. Please help me to fix this as it's very annoying. Thank you very much....
Scheduling and managing events using Outlook.com calendar
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AJ, please report result if you reinstall Outlook on your computer. It will be very helpful to me and other users to know whether re-installing Outlook eliminates the problem of Appointments being converted into Meetings. Thanks.
AJ, please report result if you reinstall Outlook on your computer. It will be very helpful to me and other users to know whether re-installing Outlook eliminates the problem of Appointments being converted into Meetings. Thanks.
Will do MG. I uninstalled my outlook.com account from Exchange that feeds into Outlook 2016 and reinstalled it. No change. I'll be uninstalling and reinstalling MS Office on Friday to test that and will update this thread. If that doesn't work I have access to Office 365 which, as I understand, seems to work fine with other apps, platforms and devices.
Anyone else have any other ideas we could try? It does seems to be an issue that MS should be working to solve??
AJ, I was using Office 2016 until I purchased a subscription to Office 365 Home on 3/29/2018. I switched to Office 365 to get benefit of continuous updates. I started experiencing problem of Appointments being converted into Meetings started after the April update to Office 365. Therefore, your plan to switch from Office 2016 to Office 365 may not fix the problem. For more info about the April upgrade, go to Upgrade Page,
OFFICE 365 CLIENT UPDATE CHANNEL RELEASES
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/mt465751.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
AJ, I was using Office 2016 until I purchased a subscription to Office 365 Home on 3/29/2018. I switched to Office 365 to get benefit of continuous updates. I started experiencing problem of Appointments being converted into Meetings started after the April update to Office 365. Therefore, your plan to switch from Office 2016 to Office 365 may not fix the problem. For more info about the April upgrade, go to Upgrade Page,
OFFICE 365 CLIENT UPDATE CHANNEL RELEASES
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/mt465751.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
FFS! I'm trying to get around the issue by using the in-built Mail app for Windows 10 which is way better than it used to be. Outlook.com and gmail.com load fine but my work addresses not so much, (so another) FFS.
Thanks again MG...
AJ, when I just now tested Windows Mail and Calendar it converted an Appointment into a Meetings after I edited with my iPhone. When I use my iPhone to edit an Appointment, my temporary Workaround is using Outlook Desktop app to delete and re-create the Appointment when I get back to my computer. Today I used the Contact Support feature of Outlook Desktop App to remind Support that the problem is continuing. Windows Mail is not as fully featured as Outlook for Desktop (see link below for a comparison).
COMPARING WINDOWS MAIL AND CALENDAR TO OUTLOOK FOR DESKTOP