A New Outlook User

[Kevin]

Twenty years, and I never used Outlook before (Lotus Notes and Groupwise):
A question, How do I change the default setting so that I do not receive
notifications when people Accept or Decline meetings and appointments? I set
up a lot of them, with a lot of people, and my Inbox is being overwhelmed.

Thank you
Kevin

 

[Kevin]

Version 2003, forgot to mention in original post.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Turn off the option to Request Responses - I believe (but someone else will need to verify) that there is a registry key that will disable this universally.

In Outlook 2003, in a new meeting or appointment item, open the Actions menu - it should be there. (I am using 2007 to answer this but have 2003 at work - perhaps Neo can verify this setting.)

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Kevin asked:

| Twenty years, and I never used Outlook before (Lotus Notes and
| Groupwise):
| A question, How do I change the default setting so that I do not
| receive notifications when people Accept or Decline meetings and
| appointments? I set up a lot of them, with a lot of people, and my
| Inbox is being overwhelmed.
|
| Thank you
| Kevin

 

[Kevin]

Thanks, that works on an item by item basis. It is back on for the next
meeting item.
Is there a global setting somewhere.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

As I indicated, there may be a registry setting but I don't know what it is *if* there is one. Perhaps someone else can chime in on this.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Kevin asked:

| Thanks, that works on an item by item basis. It is back on for the
| next meeting item.
| Is there a global setting somewhere.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
||
|| Turn off the option to Request Responses - I believe (but someone
|| else will need to verify) that there is a registry key that will
|| disable this universally.
||
|| In Outlook 2003, in a new meeting or appointment item, open the
|| Actions menu - it should be there. (I am using 2007 to answer this
|| but have 2003 at work - perhaps Neo can verify this setting.)
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Kevin asked:
||
||| Twenty years, and I never used Outlook before (Lotus Notes and
||| Groupwise):
||| A question, How do I change the default setting so that I do not
||| receive notifications when people Accept or Decline meetings and
||| appointments? I set up a lot of them, with a lot of people, and my
||| Inbox is being overwhelmed.
|||
||| Thank you
||| Kevin

 

[Adam]

Kevin,

Do you want to just have the meeting added to your calendar assuming you are
free?

You could make yourself act as a resource (kinda silly but it would work)

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/2000/maintain/cfsetup.mspx

They would have to invite you as a resource and you will decline or accept
any meeting automatically.

Not sure how helpful that is since it also requires the meeting organizer to
send the invite differently.