Article ID: 201102
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Outlook 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q201102
SUMMARY
When using the Meeting Planner in 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:
Cancel and Recreate the Meeting
To cancel the meeting and then recreate the meeting without inviting any of the previous attendees you don't want to attend, use the following steps.
- Click Calendar in the Folder List.
- Click the meeting you organized.
- On the File menu, point to Open and then click Selected Items.
- On the Actions menu, click Cancel Meeting.
- Use the Meeting Planner to recreate the meeting the same way you created the original meeting; this time invite only those you want to attend.
Create a Visual Basic for Applications Solution
Create a custom solution for meeting requests that enables you to delete a meeting from another user's calendar.
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The following Visual Basic for Applications Automation code can be used to delete a meeting from another user's calendar. The sample code deletes a meeting for January 1, 1999 at 9:00 A.M. from the calendar of a user named johndoe.
NOTE: You must have Delegate permission for the following example to work. Also, set a reference to the Microsoft Outlook 9.0 Object Library.
Sub RemoveAppt()
Dim myOLApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olns As Outlook.Namespace
Dim mymail As String
Dim myRecip As Outlook.Recipient
Dim MyFolder As MAPIFolder
Dim day1 As String
Dim MyAppts As Outlook.Items
Dim MyAppt As Outlook.AppointmentItem
Set myOlApp = New 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 = "1/1/99 9:00 AM"
Set MyAppts = MyFolder.Items
Set MyAppt = MyAppts.Find("[Start] = """ & day1 & """")
If MyAppt Is Nothing Then
MsgBox "Appointment not found."
Else
MyAppt.Delete
End If
Else
MsgBox "Could not resolve e-mail name"
End If
End Sub
REFERENCES
For additional information about available resources and answers to commonly asked questions about Microsoft Outlook 2000 solutions, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
146636 OL2000: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
Additional query words: OutSol OutSol2000 OL2K
Keywords: kbinfo KB201102
