Now past recurring appointments keep their settings and notes. That was obviously silly and could cause legal troubles but it’s how Outlook/Exchange Server worked. “If you changed specific appointments in the series your changes will be cancelled and those appointments will match the series again.”

Until now, changing an appointment series meant past event details would be altered to match the series for future meetings. Repeating calendar improvementsĪ big change is how recurring appointments are handled. The ‘Microsoft 365’ improvements go beyond speeding up calendar sync. The changes mean that shared and delegated calendars should update much faster across all the Outlook’s (Mac, mobile, web and now Windows. When several people are editing a shared event at the same time, it’s possible for the changes not to appear fast enough for all involved. Outlook and Exchange Server can have difficulties coping with fast changing appointment and meeting arrangements. Leaving aside a particularly outrageous Redmond boast, the changes are welcome enhancements. Microsoft Outlook is in the final stages of a major improvement in the ‘plumbing’ behind synchronizing calendars across an organization.

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