Moving Meetings
Is it possible to move meetings from a personal Outlook calendar to a shared calendar? A user created a personal calendar for all of her meetings with a certain group of teachers, and gave some of those teachers permission to create their own meetings on that calendar.  Now, the user no longer wants to be the owner of the calendar.  I was thinking that the best things to do, is create a shared calendar in the public folders for this group and make someone else the owner, and then have her move her meeting requests from the calendar she would like removed.  I need to make sure this is possible first though. 
  • Edited by Mick91 13 hours 0 minutes ago
June 22nd, 2015 2:28pm

Moving the calendar events is definitely possible, though if other people have been invited to those meetings from their calendar events I'm not sure if it will maintain the link to them or not, eg if you update the meeting details afterwards whether all the attendees will be updated. I think it should continue to be linked together, but I'm not certain.

To move them it should simply be a case of creating the shared calendar and give the user permission to access it so they can see both calendars. To copy them, if you change the view to List then you / she can select those events that need moving, then simply right click, select Move, and then Other Folder..., and from there select the new shared calendar into which you want to move.

Personally I'd recommend creating a shared mailbox rather than a public folder, or even a resource mailbox (which can auto accept meeting requests), since MS are in theory phasing out support for Public Folders, and it's far easier to manage a shared mailbox. Also note that so long as it's purely a shared mailbox, eg it's accessed by people from their existing mailboxes, and not direct as someone's actual mailbox so it's not a "user mailbox" it doesn't require an additional user licence so there's no licencing issues doing it that way.

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June 22nd, 2015 5:45pm

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