Change meeting time doesn't always update attendees'

[timmso]

When I create a meeting (Outlook/Exchange) with attendees, and then later
change the meeting.time, Outlook gives me an option to notify every
attendee. If I don't notify, the other attendees' meeting times are
unchanged, but my calendar reflects the new meeting time. Why is that?

I can't imagine a scenario when I would ever want that to happen.

Further, is it true that the notification, after being sent, updates
attendees' calendars only if it is either:
a) specifically responded to.
b) sits in their Inbox for a period of time so that Outlook will eventually
cycle through the items and "catch" the change?

If item b), does it follow then that if an attendee creates a rule that
moves notifications to a folder other than the Inbox (or if they simply move
it themselves), that the unresponded-to meeting change may go unrecognized
on the attendee's machine? (e.g. the unresponded-to notification MUST sit in
the Inbox, and only the Inbox, for a period of time before being
recognized)?

 

[Kasey Quanrud [MS]]

First, if you do not notify the attendees they will never receive the new
meeting time. Imagine your writing an agenda for a meeting and changed the
time of it, your not done writing the agenda so you just want to save the
meeting, but wait to send the update.

There are 3 ways the update can be processed:

A. User opens the meeting update (Preview Pane included)
B. User Accepts/Declines/Tentative/Propose New Time
C. The 'sniffer' in the inbox will eventually update the meeting, only the
inbox

Note: that if the user just views the meeting update, the meeting is updated
in their calendar.

If the user moved the item without a rule, we would process the meeting and
update the calendar on the move.

~Kasey