how to update recurring meeting in Outlook without losing history?

Here is the actual solution to this problem: use the web version of Outlook.

1. Browse to https://outlook.live.com/calendar
2. Right-click the element in your series you want to use for "this point onwards"
3. Click Edit
4. Click the second of the three choices offered:

This event

This and following events

All events in the series

Here's a screenshot (I couldn't get the image uploader to work) https://i.imgur.com/3wXBk71.png

And it works if you have added notes to prior events in the series.

YES, that is "A Solution" but NOT "THE Solution".

"THE Solution" would be for Microsoft to employ some corporate "Integrity" and provide its Paying Customers (now that most everyone is subject to a subscription model), the "Feature Parity" across the entire suite of Microsoft Calendaring applications we all deserve.

The "This and all following events" option is ONLY Selectable in Outlook Web client, all others (Desktop versions of Outlook AND TEAMS, as well as TEAMS on the Web) do not have this as a selectable option, nor do they offer a closing choice when saving a series, like they used to do.

This also applies to "Delete" actions as well! We need the "This and all following events" option available in Both actions!!!

This is Gross Negligence on the part of Microsoft Management and this behavior of ignoring something this significant needs to change.

I believe that I speak for everyone here when I say,
"Microsoft, get your act together and put in a concerted and diligent effort to provide 'OPTIONS & FEATURE CONSISTENCY" across your application suite!"

In the meantime, folks, rest assured that you are "currently" able to get around this by using the Outlook Web Client only, and only for as long as MS doesn't ruin it for the rest of us by taking this away too. They better not.

Who here has a good law firm in his or her pocket that can spin up a class action suit that will force some action in this matter and protect OUR CALENDAR DATA from a crippled application?

OWA (O365 Web Access - Outlook Calendar):

Outlook Desktop Client Calendar (NOT available):

MS TEAMS Desktop Client Calendar (NOT available):

Oddly, this missing option is also present in the TEAMS Web Client too!!!!

100% this issue needs to be fixed ASAP or at least in 2024 for the desktop-based 365. My company blocks the web-based Outlook. This is very annoying, and yes, a compliance issue. I have a recurring calendar appointment for a task I do every weekday. It's set for 9-10 AM every day, but I adjust the time if I have a conflict at that time. I went to update the series to change the Title of the appointment series. and it CHANGED EVERY SINGLE PAST APPOINTMENT BACK TO THE ORIGINAL 9-10AM. I am a stickler for calendaring, time blocking, and keeping track of hours I spent on a task, so it was annoying that it changed a 2-hour time block that I adjusted back to 1 hour! Google calendar does not have this issue. What we want Microsoft to do is have the option to edit only "All occurrences from this point onwards." That way it keeps all calendar appointments in the past in the past. Microsoft, we are BEGGING you to PLEASE fix this. Thank you!

I can't get my head round the utter stupidity of

a) not having an option when changing meeting recurrence to apply only to 'this point forward'

b) in absence of the above, not retaining past meetings and their metadata as the default

Is there anyone on the planet who needs to change a recurring meeting and thinks it's useful to rip up the entire history of past meetings, other than Microsoft employees?

I can see there are options in this stream which allow retention of meeting history with a 100 mouse clicks, or exporting/importing schedules via a CSV - both are ridiculous workarounds. Why isn't this just the default, why is behaviour different between browser & app, etc?

Yes, well done RI, we have to keep banging on about this, it's been driving me nuts for years. Such a fundamental flaw and simple fix, it seems (a la Google Calendar)

SR.

Hi Leon

I'm pleased to say that this worked - UNTIL I wanted to change the end date of a running appointment.

As soon as I had to edit the whole series (which is the only way to change the end date), it reverted to saying everything in the series would have to be the same again:

Changing the end date of an ongoing appointment (or more usually adding one, rather than changing one) is unavoidable. We book clients in on an ongoing basis until they are ready to exit our service.

So even though I could edit the series "from this point forward", adding an end date undid it all again.

Net result - problem not solved. Please would you add to the wishlist:

1. That the current functionality in the online calendar be brought into the desktop version
2. That it be possible to add an end date without deleting all prior edits

Thanks

Ri