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"This meeting isn't on your primary calendar. Attendee responses won't be displayed in the meeting. but you can still receive responses in email."

Anonymous
2021-02-11T18:36:24+00:00

Hi all, I've been unsuccesful in locating the source or an explanation for this warning message:

"This meeting isn't on your primary calendar. Attendee responses won't be displayed in the meeting. but you can still receive responses in email."

It appears when trying to schedule a meeting in a user-created calendar in Exchange Online (Online Web Access). Of course, if you try to schedule a meeting in the  default calendar for the same account this warning isn't displayed.

Any explanation regarding this ...feature... will be greatly appreciated!

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-26T10:16:57+00:00

    Hi JulianDupuy1,

    Thank you for posting in our forum.

    This message will happen when you are NOT creating the event on your default calendar. This is normal Outlook behavior. Responses are only automatically processed when the meeting is in the default calendar. Because when Outlook processes the responses, it only looks for the event in your default calendar. In order for the responses to be automatically processed, you’ll need to add the meeting to your own calendar.

    Best regards,

    Nerissa

    Dear Nerissa,

    So there is no getting around this ... feature?

    For people who have separate folders for work and personal calendars, or even separate calendar for different projects ... that can be quite annoying ... As all the meetings have to be put in the same folder otherwise you can't collect responses (whereas the desired behavior would be that the meetings can already be placed in the proper calendar folder and still collect responses ...)

    Best regards

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-26T13:08:56+00:00

    Hi,

    If we couldn't receive the responses, why do we need s shared calendar?  

    Best Regard,

    Randy

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-12T09:50:33+00:00

    Hi JulianDupuy1,

    Thank you for posting in our forum.

    This message will happen when you are NOT creating the event on your default calendar. This is normal Outlook behavior. Responses are only automatically processed when the meeting is in the default calendar. Because when Outlook processes the responses, it only looks for the event in your default calendar. In order for the responses to be automatically processed, you’ll need to add the meeting to your own calendar.

    Best regards,

    Nerissa

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