Feb 24, 2017 - Method 1: Delay Sending an Email with a Meeting Attached. Firstly, launch Outlook application. Then turn to “Calendar” pane and click “New Meeting” button. Next in the opened “New Meeting” window, you can compose the meeting as per your needs, like the image below.
Hi, I have read through many of the threads on this forum and other locations about the same problem - and proposed fix solution - where a user is not receiving meeting requests or calendar invites. It seems common in most of these problems that users are Office for Mac users, using Office 365 cloud exchange, and have delegated permissions to other users.
One such recent thread is this one - All the solutions recommended state to remove the delegates from the account not receiving the meeting invites and everything returns to normal. This sounds like a viable solution - unless the primary reason for having the delegates on the account is so that they can manage and add meetings as needed. My situation is very much this case. One of my senior managers has delegated calendar permissions to 2 of the company PA's who handle booking meetings on his behalf, managing his calendar etc, whilst he is out on the road - but still wants to receive the meeting requests himself - which doesn't sound unreasonable at all. Removing the 2 delegated users means that he receives his meeting requests - but also means that the company PA's are unable to arrange, accept and schedule his meetings for him when he calls them in etc - as they are no longer delegated permission on his calendar.
Adding them as delegates so they can do their job means that he doesn't receive the meeting notifications and have visibility over things. It's the circle of doom just presented in a different fashion. We didn't have this problem when we had an on-premis deployment of Exchange 2010 before deciding that moving to O365 and the cloud was the best way of moving the business forward. What is the solution to satisfy both requirements?
User receiving his meeting notifications and having delegates that can manage his calendar? Hi toby thanks for the response. Yes the ideal situation would be to have the mailbox owner and the delegate receive the notifications. Mailbox owner seeing all his meeting requests, but also having delegate with ability to accept/reject/create meetings on his behalf. What is currently happening is that the meeting request is being sent to mailbox owner, not reaching him and bouncing onto delegate. Problem apparent is that on his screen, he has no delegates showing, so does not have the option to select both receive the notifications. Having looked through some of the previous threads i have carried out similar actions as suggested on those to remove the delegate.
Remote powershell session to exchange tenant, get-mailboxfolderpermission -identity mailboxowner: calendar fl identified user and was showing 4 entries - mailbox owner, anonymous (sharing free/busy info only), and the 2 delegates. In the exchange ecp, only one of the delegates was attached as having delegated rights through exchange to send on behalf of mailbox owner. I am assuming that the calendar was shared by mailbox owner as i did not set anything through ecp. Next action was to remove delegates using remote powershell cmd: remove-mailboxfolderpermission -identity mailboxowner: calendar -user delegate verified removal by re-running first command, and the 2 delegates are no longer listed. Test meeting request to mailbox owner, which did not arrive with him. Ran message trace through ecp - message submitted, failed delivery to mailbox owner, delivered to one on the previous delegates. Believe there was sufficient time between me actioning and sending meeting request - i was in a meeting for about an hour between doing so.
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Hi Rick, Okay. Thanks for clarifying your situation. Firstly, I am happy to tell you that your requirement can be achieved. I noticed the Shell commands which you ever ran are calendar sharing. However, using Windows PowerShell to set “send my meeting-related message to My Delegates and Me” is not available.
That might be the root cause of the problem. I suggest you remove all the delegate permission via PowerShell. Then let the calendar owner access the Outlook client Tools accounts advanced delegates in the “Delegates who can act on my behalf” field, click “+” to manually grant delegate permission to other users and select “send my meeting-related message to My Delegates and Me”. Please give it a shot on your side and check the result, I am glad to provide further assistance. Best Regards, Toby. Hi Toby Solution found and proven working - but not quite as suggested.
Here is the walk through for future reference and maybe assist anyone else. Attempted the suggestion as described from mailbox owner machine - outlook on Mac - without success. Received message stating error, cannot connect to exchange.
The removed delegate was still receiving the meeting notifications but not the message owner, even when ECP was showing no delegate on the account. Re-added delegates through the ECP with the intention of seeing if they showed up on the Mac Outlook and then remove from there - again without success, no delegates appeared.
Logged in to mailbox account on a Windows machine (different physical machine) displayed delegate and an additional delegate listed - a user to the company whom was a previous delegate for the calendar, but left some time ago before we migrated from on-premise exchange to Office 365 exchange - as such this user account was disabled and nothing of that account was transferred up to Office 365 exchange - however still unable to remove the delegates. Ran a windows virtual machine session on the Mac and logged into Outlook, from here was able to access the delegates section and remove both delegates. Tested send of meeting request and mailbox owner now receives meeting notifications. Presume that the user account that had delegated permissions when in our on-premise install was not removed from delegation when the user account was deactivated.
As no reference of this account was migrated to Office 365 exchange, it knew nothing about this mailbox delegation and was causing some confusion somewhere. All does appear to be functioning to requirement at this point, will attempt re-adding delegates and selecting the send to both option if needed. Mailbox owner is going to manage own meetings for the moment and see how it goes for the time being without delegating out.