"New Outlook" -v- Meeting updates

DullGreyGuy

With the old/current outlook when you add a new attendee to a meeting, or delete one, you always got the option to just mail those impacted or email everyone. If you made a minor amendment to a meeting like change it from room 3 to room 5 then half the time when the recipient received the update it had a "no action necessary". 

Does anyone know the rules/how the no action necessary is triggered as I have always seemed to made people have to restate their intention to accept/decline a lot more than others?

Secondly, on the last update there was a toggle to try the "new outlook" and turning that on gives me a look, feel and function more like Outlook for Mac and so I've been using that. The one downside is that when adding someone to a meeting it doesnt come up with the prompt and so everyone gets an update and everyone is asked to accept/decline again. There is in the "Response Options" drop down the option to not request a reply but then the tracking of who accepted/declined is cleared and the new person added doesnt get to respond either.

How do I stop bombarding people with invites?

[Deleted User]

The "send updates only to ..." option is no longer in the Outlook client as of a couple of weeks ago - the option is now moved to the server instead but it functions in the same way but automatically decides who to send the update to.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/calendaring/send-updates-prompt-not-displayed

According to the above it shouldn't be sending fresh accept/decline invites, so grab some logs / examples and contact MS support.

DullGreyGuy

Thanks @[Deleted User] 

No idea if the feature is enabled on the exchange server, still get the prompt when using the older version of Outlook that we have in the citrix environment 

Any ideas on the other point of just general changes like switching which meeting room? 

[Deleted User]

@DullGreyGuy sorry not sure about that, not had chance to play with latest version at work, only using it at home at the moment. 

Will depend on Exchange server version, not sure if "on-prem" versions will be as up to date as using the cloud instance either.

Sorry can't be of more help other than signposting that this is an known change.