Microsoft Teams > General Teams channel (for work) > Team calendar starting fresh

Question

In Microsoft Teams, my team and I have a channel we use. In the General Channel, we use the

calendar app to help track employee vacation dates. Some members of the team have left,

however, their vacation dates still show up on this calendar. Some of these dates are on repeat. It

was the members themselves who added these dates to the calendar.

I am the owner of the channel. Is it possible for me to go into the calendar for these people who

need to be removed and remove them? I so far have not found a way. I am not the organizer nor

the one who initaited the date. I have tried to remove the calendar app from the channel and start a new one, however, when i do that it somehow finds all the dates from the previously deleted calendar and re-inputs all the dates. So i am stuck with the same problem.

I have not found a way to delete the dates myself or found a way to start a brand new calendar

with no entered dates.

Please assist me with some kind of solution. Some of these members are no longer with the

company so it is impossible to get all the old members out without some kind of alternative

method.

end goal is i would like a blank fresh calendar in which i can place clear rules for my team to

follow to prevent this from occurring again

Answer 1

Dear @preston carlson,

Good day! Thank you for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

I understand how confusing and frustrating this situation can be, especially when former employees’ vacation entries continue to appear and repeat on the Teams channel calendar.

Based on the current design of Microsoft Teams, the Channel Calendar in the General channel is not a separate calendar. It is a filtered view of the underlying Microsoft 365 Group calendar associated with the Team. Because of this, removing and re‑adding the Channel Calendar app does not delete existing events, which is why the same entries reappear.

In my test environment, I have tested this scenario and was able to reproduce the same behavior.

In this case, I would like to clarify the following important information for you:

If a user has been permanently deleted, the calendar events created by that user cannot be removed. If you would like to continue using the existing Team and Channel, the only supported option is to restore the deleted user account, then use that restored account to remove the associated events. However, if the user account was deleted a long time ago and cannot be restored, the events created by that account unfortunately cannot be deleted.

For future scenarios, I would recommend using a Shared Mailbox to manage calendar-related activities, rather than relying on a Channel calendar, to avoid similar limitations. This approach helps prevent similar issues in the future and allows you to clearly define rules around who can create or modify vacation entries.

For reference: About shared mailboxes, shared folders, and shared calendars in Outlook

Please understand that as forum moderator, my primary goal is to provide helpful guidance and support through general troubleshooting steps. While I don’t have access to internal systems required to resolve account issues, I truly appreciate your understanding of these limitations. I genuinely hope the information I share helps guide you in the right direction, and I'm always here to assist as much as I can within my scope.  

I understand this may be inconvenient, and I appreciate your understanding. Please let me know if you need further clarification or assistance.

Thank you for precious time. Hope you have a great day!

Answer 2

In Teams, a channel calendar is only a filtered view of the Microsoft 365 group calendar for that team. Removing the Channel calendar app tab does not delete the underlying events, which is why the same events reappear when the app is added back.

Key points from the product behavior:

1. A channel calendar is a view of the team’s Microsoft 365 group calendar, not a separate calendar. It “only shows the events for a specific channel and not the entire team.” The events themselves live in the group calendar.
2. Removing the Channel calendar tab from the channel does not remove the group calendar or its events, so re‑adding the tab will show the same events again.
3. Channel events can only be scheduled and viewed from the Teams app, but they are still stored in the associated Microsoft 365 group calendar.

Given the available information, there is no supported way in Teams itself to:

• Create a completely new, blank calendar for the same channel that is disconnected from the existing Microsoft 365 group calendar, or
• Bulk‑reset or wipe all existing channel events from that group calendar just by removing/re‑adding the Channel calendar app.

To get to a “fresh” calendar, the practical options within this behavior are:

1. Use a different channel (with its own Channel calendar tab) for the new vacation‑tracking process, leaving the old events in the original channel calendar as historical data.
2. Use a different calendar solution (for example, another app such as a third‑party calendar from the Teams store) that is not tied to the existing Microsoft 365 group calendar.

Because the context does not document owner‑level deletion of all existing channel events or a way to reinitialize the underlying group calendar from Teams, a true blank reset of the existing General channel calendar is not supported based on the provided information.

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References:

• See all your meetings in Microsoft Teams
• Shared Team Calendar (general)