Can I change the meeting organizer but keep the meeting?

  • Thread starter Stephanie Gutierrez
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Stephanie Gutierrez

There are meetings that were setup with "hard to get people" on behalf of my
predecesor. Is there any way to change who the meeting organizer is without
changing the meeting or having to create a new one?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

No. To change the meeting organizer requires that you create a new meeting.

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After furious head scratching, Stephanie Gutierrez asked:

| There are meetings that were setup with "hard to get people" on
| behalf of my predecesor. Is there any way to change who the meeting
| organizer is without changing the meeting or having to create a new
| one?
 
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fatburger

Judging by the number of posts around this topic and my own experience,
please, please change this. The advice that "we just don't let you change
that" and, if someone owning the meeting leaves the company or dies to "just
resend the invitation" is not helpful.

I have also had the experience (more than once now) of sending an invitation
to a distribution list that I happen to be on and ending up as both organizer
and attendee but (amazingly) attendee seems to take precedence! I longer
control the meeting AND Outlook takes it out of my calendar (!!!) and then
won't even let me accept a simple forward from myself. I had to forward it
twice and then I can at least accept it to hold the space. I can no longer
see who accepted and who didn't which is really ugly for meetings that go to
a large list - which is the use case that triggers this behavior.

I can't remove myself from the list of attendees even though I'm still
listed as the organizer. This is a really obvious defect - please fix it.
 
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