Disable auto-delete of accepted meeting invites in the *new" Outlook?

Anonymous
2023-06-17T15:42:58+00:00

The existing Outlook app for Windows has a setting to prevent calendar invites from being automatically sent to Deleted Items* when you accept them. Is this setting available in New Outlook?

Microsoft just announced that starting in 2024, the new Outlook will be the "official" one. I'm really concerned that features like this may be ignored when trying to reach feature parity. So, Is there an official feature request page for this? They exist for other Microsoft products I use, but I didn't find one dedicated to the New Outlook.

Thanks for your help with these topics!

*Deleted Items is the wrong choice even if I wanted this! Archive would be the smarter location for a modern email didn't. (But the best thing would be too simply not do actions the user didn't request!) Thanks again.

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-07T15:42:30+00:00

    Hi Dave, it does work on the Web Outlook, as that's what I tested and it worked. It's in the same spot as the Windows Outlook app.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-03T17:51:12+00:00

    If that still existed do you think there would be this many pages of people discussing and anger at Microsoft failure to address the problem? There is not even a settings anymore its now options and none of what you typed is available in it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-27T18:06:24+00:00

    I was surprised that this same functionality is not in the *New* (PWA) version of Outlook. I too want to hang on to all the meeting invites and having them sent to a separate folder, whether archive or not, would be a much better approach, from my POV as well.

    Reading these posts today, I think it may be better for the overall future platform to allow a rule to be written to copy meeting invites to a separate archive or other folder when they are received? Of course, one would not want to see 2 copies of every meeting invite appearing in their calendar, but it seems it should be possible to keep such a folder from being included in the Calendar view.

    Also, perhaps the Power Automate team could write a template workflow for everyone to find and clone?

    Please let us know what sort of workarounds are for this very annoying default behavior.

    Eric Vanstory

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-12-13T02:56:10+00:00

    How could this simple feature still not be available?
    Just let us keep invitation after respond.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T18:42:27+00:00

    Can you provide the instructions for automatically deleting responses when others accept or reject meeting invitations I send out?

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