Edit/Add Meeting Notes on meeting invite sent from someone else

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I have a user who used, supposedly, used to be able to add note/details to a meeting they were invited to for our president.

For instance, the user Sally, received and accepted a meeting on behalf of John from Meeting Organizer. Sally would then be able to add notes about travel arrangements for John into the meeting she accepted on John's calendar. Now, she is no longer able to edit/add these details or the meeting at all.

Is it possible to add notes/details to a meeting invite from someone else? I am not interested in the OneNote plug-in function that allows you to edit a note for a meeting in OneNote. We would want to do this only inside Outlook.

User has full owner rights to the mailbox and calendar and we've tried it with added delegate rights and without.

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Anna,

First make sure you are on the Beta Channel or CC Preview latest build. This new feature will be in Current Channel later this week in Version 2311 (Version page, Update history).

Go to the Calendar tab in Outlook and add an appointment to your calendar. It can be anything. Double click on that appointment to open it and then click File, Options, Customize Ribbon, etc. Rest of steps from Known Issue article below.

Images are blocked and meeting body is read only in Outlook Desktop if calendar items are from other senders for Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability released August 8, 2023 - Microsoft Support

Add the Edit Meeting button to the Ribbon

In Outlook Desktop switch to your calendar and open a meeting item.
Select File, Options, then Customize Ribbon.
In the right column under Customize the classic ribbon, under Main Tabs, select Appointment.
Select New Group and then after it appears, rename it Edit Meeting. You can rename it later if you prefer.
Use the Move Up arrow to move the Edit Meeting button under Actions. Keep the new group Edit Meeting selected.
Using the column on the left, under Choose commands from: click the dropdown and select Commands Not in the Ribbon.
In the picker box, locate and select Edit Meeting, then click Addto add it to the custom group you just created.
Select OKto exit Customize the Ribbon.

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Anonymous

2023-09-07T21:24:31+00:00

Hi all,

The Outlook Team decided to accept the DCR and will be creating a non-policy registry key to re-enable editing meetings. We just updated the Known Issue article with this status and will keep it updated with release info as we get it, Images are blocked and meeting body is read only in Outlook Desktop if calendar items are from other senders for Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability released August 8, 2023 - Microsoft Support. Thanks for sharing all the feedback to help with the business justification. I don't know an ETA yet for the release but I will add it to the article and will post back to the thread when I get it.
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2023-09-07T23:12:39+00:00

Hi all,

The Outlook Team decided to accept the DCR and will be creating a non-policy registry key to re-enable editing meetings. We just updated the Known Issue article with this status and will keep it updated with release info as we get it, Images are blocked and meeting body is read only in Outlook Desktop if calendar items are from other senders for Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability released August 8, 2023 - Microsoft Support. Thanks for sharing all the feedback to help with the business justification. I don't know an ETA yet for the release but I will add it to the article and will post back to the thread when I get it.

I'm not 100% sure that I fully understand what a DCR is ("Design Change Request" ?), but this decision looks very promising.....Can anyone who is more familiarwith MS terminology/approach confirm my understanding please ? Many Thanks.
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Anonymous

2023-09-08T09:53:00+00:00

🤠 enjoy the reg fix. That solution sounds amazing.

This is one of those per-user, per-computer fixes that will not follow you. You will have convince IT to roll out a GPO or manually do it as requested. There are many other settings that live solely in the registry, as FYI. Some of them later come back as options that admins can set easily per mailbox via PowerShell. Some of them still never did and have become dusty relics that nobody has the will to bother with.

I'm glad we have an override like this coming as clearly some people really depend on it just like this.
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2023-09-08T10:24:35+00:00

Ugh, thanks for clarifying that; I'm skeptical our IT team will execute an exception like this as we're a large corporation and they're hyper-cautious about security, so logical or not, any kind of exception or anything that smacks of "rollback" will likely be viewed with suspicion and summarily rejected.
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