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Can't delete/remove shared calendars from Outlook.com, Outlook 2013, Office 365

Anonymous
2015-07-08T06:06:49+00:00

After extensive search, I haven't found an answer to this:

I have several calendars associated with my microsoft account (outlook.com ActiveSync "m.hotmail.com").  Many of them were shared by other people, either by the retired "Rooms", or some other microsoft calendar share mechanism.

Anyways, I am not able to delete/remove/disconnect from calendars shared by other people who are listed as the owners of the calendar. 

I have tried to do so from my outlook.com account at http://calendar.live.com by doing the following (as many have described online):

  1. Click on the settings (gear icon)
  2. Select options
  3. Select calendar to delete
  4. Select "Delete" on top menu

The problem is that I do not see a "delete" option in the top menu.

I have also tried to find a way to delete the calendar via Outlook 2013 (office 365 subscription).

First, the only place I can select the calendars is by selecting "All Folders" tab on the left side.  There, if I right click on a calendar that is in "My Calendars" I get a drop down menu with the following:

Rename Calendar

Copy Calendar

Move Calendar

Delete Calendar

The "Rename", "Move", and "Delete" options are greyed out and can't be selected.

Anybody that can help with this would be a god.

Thanks.

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-07-13T18:42:38+00:00

    Hi Deepika,

    Unfortunately, I tried that.  As I explained in my post question on step #4 (your step 5), the "Delete" button does not appear at the top of the browser.  This is what I see:

    Again, this is true for several calendars for which I am not the owner, but were shared with me a long time ago.  I just want to get ride of them.

    Any other ideas?

    Thanks,

    Larry

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-04-11T18:21:50+00:00

    Sign in - Go to your Outlook.com calendar - Right click on the calendar you want to delete in lower left - Rename it-Right click again - Delete it.  BOOM - It's gone.  If you have it synced to phone it will be deleted too on phone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-07-09T01:06:52+00:00

    Hi Larry,

    Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

    I understand your inconvenience. Please make sure that have you followed the correct path:

    In Outlook.com,

    1. Login to Outlook.com.
    2. Click on Menu on left top of the window.
    3. Select Calendar and click on the Settings (Gear icon) at right top.
    4. Select Calendar you want to delete
    5. Click "Delete" in the top menu. Look at the screen shot below:

    Note: Make sure that, the one which you are deleting should not be a Primary calendar.

    Also, look at “Select when to delete your completed task” option is set properly.

    In options Window you can see these options.

    Hope this information is helpful. Kindly update the status of this issue.

    Feel free to contact us for any assistance on Windows Operating System. We are glad to help you.

    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-24T01:30:32+00:00

    After speaking with Microsoft escalations team for a couple of weeks now and them troubleshooting with engineering teams at Outlook/MSN...it came to the sad truth that this is a result of an unintended bug when they got rid of the Groups feature. The escalations support person who was handling my case was very apologetic but I did appreciate how he was willing to properly investigate the issue (versus some of the moderators on here who simply point you to the Office 365 support page *sigh*). In our final call (we spoke at least once per week for almost a month), he did repeat many times how the engineering teams he opened a dialogue with with asked him to pass on the message to me that they were very grateful that someone had gone through the effort of pointing out this pesky bug to them. They promised that the bug would be taken care of in the new Outlook experience that is slowly rolling out to users worldwide, and hopefully by the end of the year, these ghost Calendars should be gone. At this point, I would give up any effort from our end user UI to delete these shared calendars (even when my support agent was trying to delete the calendar off the server directly, the server would re-populate the calendar within minutes). Instead, I am reserving hope for when my account upgrades to the new Outlook experience and either it is deleted automatically or we are given the proper option to do so.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-04-13T07:27:12+00:00

    @LarrySmith10000 did you have any luck with this issue? I am in the exact same situation. Some long-ago Microsoft "group" feature (either Live.com, MSN Messenger, MSN Groups, who knows) created a group and shared calendar that now seems to be impossible to delete because Microsoft has killed the last iteration of "Groups" (before the most recent change, this fix might have worked: https://hshover.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/how-to-removing-calendars-from-outlook-com-hotmail-com-live-com/)

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