Optional attendee in meetings

[Guest]

What is the intent of this field when setting up meetings? When an organizer
creates a meeting and wishes to include invitees who only want to be notified
of a meeting but don't wish their names appearing as an "optional" attendee,
how does one do it? The Optional field seems to display to invitees?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes, the optional field is meant to display. For instance, if you have a
workgroup and may want a manager to attend to make some decisions the group
is not authorized to make, invite the manager as an optional attendee. This
notifies everyone in the meeting invite that management is coming (Perhaps)
so bring up those items that require vetting from above.

If you truly want to do this and not have any names showing, then try this:
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/ccmeeting.htm


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After furious head scratching, Sandy Ellis asked:

| What is the intent of this field when setting up meetings? When an
| organizer creates a meeting and wishes to include invitees who only
| want to be notified of a meeting but don't wish their names appearing
| as an "optional" attendee, how does one do it? The Optional field
| seems to display to invitees?

 

[Guest]

Thanks so much. I liked the additional info in Slipstick that adding them as
a Resource attendee is same as a bcc. I always thought Resources had to be
pre-setup by network in order to be selected.