Deleting previous calendar items that re-occur but not future ones

[Guest]

I have some users that have recurring calendar items on a weekly basis. They
have set them up correctly in outlook to reoccur weekly. They would like to
delete all the previous occurrances but when they try they can only delete
the series or that 1 occurrance. Is this possible without any 3rd party
softwares?

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Have you tried using AutoArchiving to do the 'dirty work' of deleting the
messages? Of course, this means that all older calendar items would be
deleted, however.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have some users that have recurring calendar items on a weekly
basis. They have set them up correctly in outlook to reoccur weekly.
They would like to delete all the previous occurrances but when they
try they can only delete the series or that 1 occurrance. Is this
possible without any 3rd party softwares?

I don't think recurring items are not multiple entries. There single
entries that Outlook presents to you multiple times and so trying to delete
a subset of the recurrences isn't possible.

However, can you open the series and just change the start date to be the
date of the earliest you wish to see? Won't that remove all prior entries
from the Calendar?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I don't think recurring items are not multiple entries.

That should say "I don't think recurring items are multiple entries.
They're single entries..."