Microsoft Outlook – can you please be a little less fucked?
Has this happened to you:
- Accept Outlook meeting organized by someone else
- Later try to decline Outlook meeting
- Outlook won’t let you – claiming you are the organizer of the meeting
- If you delete the meeting everyone gets a meeting cancelled notice… even though you never owned the meeting!
That is fucked. I have a theory it is due to Microsoft Outlook not doing a good job of handling the combination of access via the client, via a browser and/or via a smart phone (through Microsoft ActiveSync). I could be completely wrong but the symptom of the problem is very annoying.
Here is my work around solution: when a meeting that I didn’t create claims I’m the owner I switch from the Outlook client to the web-based version of Outlook… and everything works. Whatever was confused gets un-confused.
I’d call Microsoft support for help… but that would be akin to dipping myself in boiling acid (meaning painful and pointless).
