Meeting without Inviting Yourself (Outlook 2000 – Exchange 2003)

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Is there a way for an organiser of a meeting not to be invited to the meeting when creating an appointment in Outlook
We need this so that a PA can set up a meeting, but not have their calendar showing a Busy Event that they will not be attending.
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The only way is to create the meeting and then delete it on the Organizers Calendar without advising any of the attendees.

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… and presumably you then lose control of it for updates or amendments?
Presumably you could just drag it to an alternate calendar folder?

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Yes, and yes. Perhaps we should also explain the delegation capabilities of Outlook to the OP, assuming PA means Personal Assistant.

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I wasn’t aware that delegation capabilities would get around the described problem
If so – I’d be interested in hearing how too. By the way what is “OP”

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With the right deledgation settings, a user on Exchange can have a delegate set meetings up for them without the delagatee being invited or having the item on the delegatees’ Calendar.

OP = Original Poster. (When I’m too lazy to go back and look for their user name.)

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