Copy meetings from one calendar to another no longer supported

Anonymous
2023-12-14T11:30:12+00:00

I'm using Outlook 365 on my Windows 11 PC, and the Outlook android app on my smartphone. On the PC, I have a work calendar, an association calendar, and a private one. The android app only has the private e-mail account and calendar (this is for security reasons). Until very recently, I have been able to copy meetings from the work and association calendars to the private one on my PC, so that they show up in my android Outlook app.

Microsoft has removed this functionality without warning. Outlook blocks copying meetings with “Copying meetings is not supported.” - Microsoft Support.

The workaround (involving editing the regsitry) works, but what is the long term solution?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-09-10T12:52:33+00:00

    Gabriel Bratton, this is not buried earlier in thread, but adding it here again in case it helps:

    Your registry key idea does not work except for a tiny percentage of people.

    Your company, Microsoft, has been displaying immense disregard for us, your customers, who repeatedly have pleaded with them to just fix the problem in the first place. It's mind numbingly, stupefyingly tone deaf that no one from MS Management is getting this in their heads or has the integrity to show up in this forum and explain why they won't fix their own mistake that causes us inconvenience.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-10T13:26:03+00:00

    Dave, you are right on target with your reply to Gabriel. M$ has made a science out of non-answering.

    I did find on another post (from a customer, not from M$), a solution to copy a meeting from one date to another - not sure that will address your need, but here it is:

    In Calendar, right click and drag the original meeting to another day (any other day). A box will appear with choices, choose "Copy". The original meeting will now be copied where you placed it. You can then open it and change the date/times to whatever you want.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-09-27T18:14:10+00:00

    This only works if you want to MOVE the meeting from one calendar to another. It doesn't create a duplicate onto the 2nd calendar. In the new outlook, you can use the "duplicate" feature and unfortunately that resends the invite to everyone in the meeting.

    There are a lot of features no longer available that have huge impact on organizations.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-22T14:24:49+00:00

    I found that if you use 'schedule view', so you can see one day with each calendar on a separate row, you can copy and paste an appointment across easily - if the appt is a series, it copies the whole series. Very useful.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-23T14:59:20+00:00

    It's the shortsided views like Jeremy's that permeate modern programming nowdays at Microsoft...and these same views are seen throughout all of the 'new' product updates/upgrades.

    The sheer versatility of the MS Office suite of products helped to cement itself as the defacto standard. Users and admins alike had not been bound by a single developer's view of how a user interfaces and works with products day in and day out. The reduction in functionality and features in newer rollouts is going beyond frustrating.

    I hope to retire before some developer thinks CNTL-C and CNTL-V are too archaic to allow in the next 'new' rollout of any product.

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