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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2023-09-10T14:25:59+00:00
Oh, DUH!

I just realized that the best workaround (for me) for this inane situation is to simply FORWARD the invite to the SAME calendar it was originally sent to, but before hitting send, I add any attachments or notes so they appear in the forwarded version. THEN on this forwarded version of the event, I use CTRL-click-drag to make a copy that will be immune to any updates the meeting originator might make in the future, and delete the original event from the calendar.

Annoying to have to do it, but manageable.

Yes, this works but is indeed annoying compared with the previous ease of editing meeting notes before the August 8 update (according to MS a fix for a possible level 2 "Exploitation Less Likely" spoofing exploit that has NOT been reported in the wild CVE-2023-36893 - Security Update Guide - Microsoft - Microsoft Outlook Spoofing Vulnerability).

BTW there must have been a huge uproar from millions of pissed-off Outlook users because on Sept 7 MS released the following:

**Important:**After reviewing customer feedback, the Outlook Team will be implementing an option to re-enable editing meetings. We will update this topic with the specifics and initial release build as soon as they are available. The plan specifics include:
- A non-policy registry key that will enable editing all meetings (internal and external)
- A release plan that includes backporting to main M365 channels through to Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel Version 2302
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2023-09-08T13:30:26+00:00

I was so pleased when I saw this note yesterday -- I thought, Wow! Microsoft listened to their customers. But, then I saw @JeremyBradshaw's note explaining that this would require IT making an exception. I work for a a $21B company with 85,000 employees. Our IT systems are TIGHT. I highly doubt IT is going to make this exception.

I'm incredibly disappointed.
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2023-09-08T12:48:55+00:00

I agree, this was a function that I used frequently and I fear that my company will not accept any kind of exception. To work around this change I have been creating another invite next to the original invite with my notes, which of course is frustrating and inconvenient when I was able to include notes in the original invite previously.

Well, I always had to create a copy before making any modifications, anyway, otherwise any updates that the organizer made to the original invite would have erased them. But it's frustrating that a user now can't even make their own personalized changes to an *inert copy* of the original event; it simply makes no sense.
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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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