Frequently Asked Questions
Outlook Calendar FAQs
- Can students see my schedule?
- I don't want someone to see my calendar, what do I do?
- Do I have to use Outlook client?
- I use a Mac and want to use iCal instead.
- How do I access my department calendar?
- Outlook seems very confusing. Is training available?
- How do I access my calendar from my phone?
- I used to use SyncMl to syncronize my calendar to my phone. Do I still have to?
- The meeting response emails don't disappear from my phone, how come?
- Do I have to respond to all these emails inviting me to meetings?
- Can I just delete a meeting request if I am not going?
- Why so much email? Do I have to recieve meeting alerts in my inbox?
- Can I filter the meeting invitations and responses?
- How do I set up designate rights in Outlook?
- Who can see my room resource?
- Who can schedule my room resource?
- Do I have to accept room invites if I am the room "owner"?
- How do I add a room to a meeting?
- I am scheduling on behalf of someone else, can I remove myself from the meeting?
- I was invited to a meeting, what happens if I don't send an email response?
- I changed my meeting time, do I need to send an email update?
- I can't go to a meeting, can I forward the request to someone else?
- I declined a meeting but then changed my mind. How do I get that meeting back on my calendar?
- I am traveling and will be in a different time zone. What happens to calendar entries on my mobile device?
- Are OWA, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2011 the same?
- I want to invite a group of people to my meeting, what do I do?
- My deleted meetings don't disappear from my calendar. What do I do?
- A meeting disappeared, what happened?
- I only use calendar through myHome. Do I need to upgrade to Office 2010/2011?
- I don't want students to be able to schedule me. What do I do?
- I am one of two delegates for the department chair, but I can't seem to make changes to meetings scheduled by the other delegate
- When you invite someone to a meeting, does it automatically appear as tentative on that person's calendar?
- My resource is set to Automatically accept meeting requests... yet I find some meeting requests in the resource Inbox - Why?
- If I delete a meeting and then decide later to attend, how do I get the meeting back?
- My resource is set to Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests, yet my resource got doublebooked - Why?
- Can resources be set to auto accept meetings?
- I am not receiving email notifications when someone schedules me in a meeting - Why?
- What happens if I have a "tentative" appointment on my calendar and then I delete the email notification without accepting the appointment?
- Can people invited to a meeting see who has accepted or declined?
- Can multiple Delegates handle meeting related messages for their Designee?
- Can I open multiple calendars at one time?
- I'm scheduling a meeting for others (not as a delegate). Can I remove myself as an attendee?
- Do I have to accept a meeting for it to appear on my calendar?
- I had not accepted/declined a meeting request prior to migration, how do I accept it?
- I've shared a calendar other than my personal calendar but Outlook 2011 for Mac users can't open it. How do I share with Mac users?
- Why does a shared calendar appear blank in Outlook 2011?
- Why do the calendar items I create on a shared calendar appear to be on my calendar in Outlook 2011?
- Why is the contact group option unavailable in Outlook 2011?
- How do I create a rule to help manage meeting requests?
- Why can I see the outline of a shared calendar but not view the calendar?
- I am unable to delete a private appointment from a shared calendar. How can I remove the appointment?