Delete or cancel recurring meeting invites

Question

Hi all

One of my user(roger@Company portal .com) has set recurring meeting invites and he is currently on vacation. how i delete/cancel the recurring meeting invites created by him by meeting subject name
for example
Meeting Subject is TEST1
sender is roger@Company portal .com

I am not sure how to use Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com using subject line

Answer 1

Hi Roger,

I would suggest to delete it from a delegated owner/editor of that calendar or provide full access permission temporarily and login using OWA to delete the recurring meeting.

If needs to be done only using powershell, try using Search-Mailbox instead of Remove-CalendarEvents since to my knowledge, we wouldn't be filter one meeting invite using Remove-CalendarEvents.

Search-Mailbox -identity “roger@contoso.com” -SearchQuery kind:meetings AND subject:”TEST1” -EstimateResultsOnly

Search-Mailbox -identity “roger@contoso.com” -SearchQuery kind:meetings AND subject:”TEST1” -DeleteContent

Reference: https://sysadminguides.org/2018/06/03/how-to-fix-delete-recurring-meetings-using-powershell-exchange-mailbox/

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Answer 2

Hi @Roger Roger ,

Agree with @Ashok M that it's not suggested to use Remove-CalendarEvents as it cannot be used to remove a particular meeting. For more information, you may read Remove-CalendarEvents.

According to this article, the Search-Mailbox cmdlet is now still available to the latest versions like Exchange 2019:

I tested in my Exchange 2016 lab using the powershell command similar to below and it successfully delete the meeting series from both the organizer and the attendees:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "kind:meetings AND Subject:'Test1' AND From:roger@contoso.com" -EstimateResultOnly  
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "kind:meetings AND Subject:'Test1' AND From:roger@contoso.com" -DeleteContent  

Note1: The Search-Mailbox cmdlet returns up to 10000 results per mailbox if a search query is specified.
Note2: You need to be assigned the Mailbox Import Export management role to use this -DeleteContent switch.

If you still have concern on this and prefer using other alternatives, as suggested by AshokM that you can use the New-ComplianceSearch and New-ComplianceSearchAction cmdlets instead. Here's an occifial document for your reference:
Search for and delete messages in Exchange Server

Answer 3

i want to remove the calendar invites using meeting subject Name, will the below syntax work?

Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com -CancelOrganizedMeetings "kind:meetings AND Subject:'TEST1'"

Answer 4

search mailbox syntax is depreciated now, can this by done by Remove-CalendarEvents
something like the below
Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com -CancelOrganizedMeetings "kind:meetings AND Subject:'TEST1'"