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How do outlook calendar invites work?

Anonymous
2024-12-13T10:58:35+00:00

I’ve seen I’ve been invited to a meeting with my employer on outlook, but the invite has come from myself. On the calendar invite email it says ‘as the meeting organiser, you do not need to respond to the meeting’

My question is…how has this happened? Has my employer been in my email account monitoring my emails and accidentally forgot to switch back to their own account? The invite was sent at 19:45pm after I finished work for the day so I wasn’t logged in.

I’m now paranoid that they’re checking up on my emails. Any advice is gratefully appreciated.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-13T13:52:43+00:00

    Hello Anonymous man 2407,

    Good day! Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft community.

    As per your description and my understanding, you received a meeting invitation in Outlook where the sender appears to be yourself. The invitation email states, "As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to the meeting." This has led to concerns that someone, possibly your employer, might have accessed your email account and sent the invite.

    One possibility is that your employer might have delegate access to your calendar. Delegate access allows someone else to manage your calendar on your behalf, including sending meeting invites. If your employer has this access, they could have scheduled the meeting for you, which would explain why the invite appears to come from you. They can organize your meeting schedules from their user account, therefore it doesn't require login to your account.

    Another possibility is that, when someone creates a meeting, they can add a meeting organizer using the Scheduling Assistant. At that point if your meeting invites are configured no need to accept the meeting request then it will appear in your calendar. It doesn't lead to the fact that someone else have to login into your account.

    However, I will suggest:

    • Check your calendar permissions to see if anyone has delegate access.
    • Review your account activity to ensure there hasn't been any unauthorized access.
    • Speak with your employer or IT department to understand if there are any shared calendar settings or delegation permissions in place.

    I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions or concerns.

    If you think that I have provided the necessary information related to this post and it's Helpful, you can also vote for this thread. In order to make this thread a top content and help any other community users who might be facing a similar scenario to easily find this thread/post.

    Thanks for choosing the MS community.

    Looking forward to your response and have a great day ahead!!

    Sincerely

    S M Nazmun Nur | Microsoft Community Moderator

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