OL97: Removing Meeting Appointments from Attendees' Calendars

• Microsoft Outlook 97

SUMMARY

When using the Meeting Planner in Microsoft Outlook, you can invite others to a meeting by sending meeting requests that are automatically processed and placed on the attendees' calendars. Outlook does not have a feature that enables you to send a cancellation request that automatically removes a meeting appointment from the attendees' calendars.

MORE INFORMATION

To work around this, use either of the following methods:

Method 1

To cancel the meeting and then recreate the meeting without inviting any of the previous attendees you don't want to attend the meeting, use the following steps.

1. In Outlook, click Calendar.

2. Click the meeting you organized.

3. On the File menu, click Open.

4. On the Appointment menu, click Cancel Meeting.

5. Use the Meeting Planner to recreate the meeting the same way you created the original meeting, however, this time invite only those you want to attend.

Method 2

Create a custom solution for meeting requests that enables you to delete a meeting from another user's calendar.

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NOTE: You must have Delegate permission for the following example to work.

   Sub RemoveAppt()
   Set myOlApp = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
   Set olNS = myOlApp.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
   mymail = "johndoe"
   Set myRecip = olNS.CreateRecipient(mymail)
   myRecip.Resolve
   If myRecip.Resolved Then
      Set myfolder = olNS.GetSharedDefaultFolder(myRecip,olFolderCalendar)
      day1 = "1/1/97 9:00 AM"
      Set myappointments = myfolder.Items
      Set currentappt = myappointments.Find("[Start] = """ & day1 & """")
      currentappt.Delete
   Else
      MsgBox "Could not resolve email"
   End If
   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about creating solutions with Microsoft Outlook 97, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   Article-ID: Q166368
   Title     : OL97: How to Get Help Programming with Outlook

   Article-ID: Q170783
   Title     : OL97: Q&A: Questions about Customizing or
               Programming Outlook