How to create/save .ics file in New Outlook for Windows

Hi Poom Ritthirungrat1,

Good day.

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Right click on the event Then Forward Then write the needed email .

This pearson will receive invitation with ICS file attached .

I hope this helps let me know if this is contrary to what you need, I would still be helpful to answer more of your questions .

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Hey everyone, I figured out what they were trying to explain.

In order to get the .ics file, you need to forward the meeting invitation to another person first. Keep in mind I'm talking about a meeting invitation and not an appointment. These are the steps I followed:

1. Create the event and fill out all the information.
2. Invite somebody to the event. This will change the event from "appointment" to "meeting".

DO NOT INVITE YOURSELF (do not use the same email creating the event).

Any email should work.

3. Once the meeting is created, the option to forward the email will be available in the right-click menu (as shown in the image above).

Forward the event to another email that can be accessed outside of Outlook, such as Gmail.

4. Go to the forwarded invitation on your Gmail account. The .ics file should be attached to the email.

I know this might be too troublesome for many, and I hope the Microsoft team will solve this issue soon.

C'mon, it was so easy before

I think it's ridiculous that we need a WORKAROUND involving four extra steps and a dummy account to accomplish what used to be "file -> save as -> save"

This new outlook is a total joke and they forced everyone to switch over to it. WHY?? The old version worked so much better, why did they force everyone to this garbage? Everything takes a lot more steps to accomplish. To be able to edit an event you want to add to your calendar, the old outlook literally took 1 step. You opened the ics file and it brings you straight to the window with all the information you can then edit and tweak before clicking save. Now the same thing takes 7 steps. Seriously, 700% of the original steps to get to the same place and somehow they call this an upgrade?

We use the .ics files to automate our process and add them to other Microsoft Tools including PowerAutomate. Having to send the invite outside of a Microsoft client to get the ics file is unacceptable.

This unfortunately does not work, especially when you don't have anyone invited in the calendar, fwd is not an option. And when you forward, it doesn't forward as an attachment with an ics. These instructions do not work. This is a major interruption to our business unfortunately.

Thanks for the workaround but this workflow is ridiculous.

Saving an .ics is soooo much easier!

Why is Microsoft removing a solution that was perfectly fine?