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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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Your case is similar though slightly worse. I have Office 365 subscription and ios - iphone and ipad - and I can edit events in Outlook 365 desktop provided they are not created in Outlook desktop in the first instance.
I don't have any problem with OneDrive for the moment - fingers crossed. I totally agree with you regarding updates but doubt very much MS will pay any attention to our complaints taking into account that tons of complaints have been written about this even in important influencing magazines and newspapers. Sometimes I got the feeling that they just don't care about problems caused to small businesses and people in general. To start with I find scary that MS can get into your pc and fiddle with it at its will. In any case I'll vote for your claim.
Appointments changing into Meetings recently became a problem for users of Outlook.com accounts and Microsoft Exchange users. It results from glitch with April 2018 update to Office. Workaround is to use Windows Calendar App (instead of Outlook 2016) to create appointments on PC. Until glitch is fixed, Outlook 2016 can only be used to view or edit Appointments -- not create them. Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android can be used to create or edit appointments. See following post for help using Windows 10 Calendar.
WINDOWS CALENDAR
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14091/windows-8-calendar-app-help
Thank you, MG_!
I pretty thoroughly tested your suggestion and found it to work great. As long as I created the Appt. on my PC via Windows Calendar App, it remained an editable Appt on my Outlook for Android App on my phone. As you probably know, once created this way, i could even go into the Appt via my PC Outlook, double-click open it, edit it, save, and then go back to my Android and it was still fine...
So the key to the workaround's effectiveness does seem to simply be AVOIDING the CREATION of the Appt in Outlook on one's PC. And subsequent editing of the Appt. in Outlook did NOT make the Appt. corrupt then.
Great help. Thanks.
Hopefully MS will resolve this bug soon, so even this effective workaround is not necessary for too long.
Appointments changing into Meetings recently became a problem for users of Outlook.com accounts and Microsoft Exchange users. It results from glitch with April 2018 update to Office. Workaround is to use Windows Calendar App (instead of Outlook 2016) to create appointments on PC. Until glitch is fixed, Outlook 2016 can only be used to view or edit Appointments -- not create them. Outlook for iOS and Outlook for Android can be used to create or edit appointments. See following post for help using Windows 10 Calendar.
WINDOWS CALENDAR
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/14091/windows-8-calendar-app-help
I have Office 365 on my PC sync and it to my Galaxy S7's Outlook for Android app. No iOS app owned by me.
As others have said, when I create an Appt on my PC in Outlook it appears as an uneditable Meeting on my Outlook for Android app. If I create an Appt on my Android app, it works fine, UNTIL I edit it on my PC's Outlook, at which time it becomes corrupt.
The duration of this bug with no solution from MS for months is definitely very frustrating!