Can you hide meeting attendees

[Guest]

Hello,

Is it at all possible to send out a meeting invite without disclosing the
attendees to everyone? A bit like BCC-ing an e-mail.

We want to schedule a 'surprise' meeting where people can't see who else is
invited.

We're using Office 2000 & XP on Exchange 5.5 and 2003.

Appreciate your help and comments

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Create an appointment in your own calendar, but invite no one. Then forward
the appointment to each person as an individual message or a group message
with the names in the Bcc box.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your response Sue, but it didn't quite work out.

If I forward the meeting, the users get an e-mail with the meeting as an
attachment. They can't accept this, only copy to their Calendar. I then can't
see in the original meeting who has accepted...

If I update the meeting with new attendees and then select to send the
update only to deleted and added attendees, the following happens. In the
invite, they will see all attendees, but in the actual meeting only the ones
that have been added and send the invite to in that change.

So by adding people to a meeting we're halfway there, but the meeting invite
still shows all attendees.

Hope you can help.

Martyn.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If I update the meeting with new attendees and then select to send the

update only to deleted and added attendees, the following happens. In the
invite, they will see all attendees, but in the actual meeting only the
ones
that have been added and send the invite to in that change.

I don't follow what you're saying in the last sentence. There seem to be
some words missing.

If you don't want anyone to know that anyone else is invited *and* you want
to track responses, this won't work. Basically, you can't both track
responses and have attendees know nothing about who else is invited.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

If you don't want anyone to know that anyone else is invited *and* you want
to track responses, this won't work. Basically, you can't both track
responses and have attendees know nothing about who else is invited.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Hi Sue,

That is exactly what we want to achieve. Looks like it is not possible. Many
thanks for your help on this one.

Martyn.