User unable to manage reoccurring meeting they are the organizer of
Hello Tech Community! Hopefully someone else has dealt with this issue and has some insight into the solution. Anyways, One of our users reported that they cannot manage a reoccurring meeting they organized, since they missed one meeting. They are now seen as an "attendee". I have looked all over for resolution, coming to the conclusion that MS does not have the capability for admins to manage calendar events/meetings like this. Here is the original request the user sent: "I had created a reoccurring meeting in October and declined it one week when I wasn’t going to be available. I had accidentally cancelled the meeting from my calendar and I had to have someone re-invite me to the meeting so I could still access it since I was the host. Now I am unable to make changes to the meeting invite, it doesn’t give me the option to edit or cancel it because it’s counting me as an attendee instead of the organizer." We have checked in OWA and desktop app. Same issue. Thank you in advance to any input anyone can provide.
27 years with Organizer-as-dictator problem: Allow attendees to actually change a meeting
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We very frequently save Outlook meetings as .ics files that we then upload in our targeted email tool to send out to our employees. We've recently noticed that if you include a hyperlink in the meeting details then save it as an .ics file, the saved file no longer retains the hyperlink and instead displays the full URL. Is anyone else experiencing this or know what's going on/how to fix it? Thanks. Screenshots attached.
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