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Outlook Meeting Issues: Here’s how you can Fix them

Updating Outlook solves so many meeting issues

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Outlook is one of thebest email client programs, especially for businesses, and has been one of the most important utilities of Microsoft’s popular Office suite. However, Outlook Meeting with some users reporting that it is not sending meeting updates.

Its meetings feature helps you organize and manage important meetings easily by automating tasks like sending invitations and issuing reminders.

As a result, Outlook’s Meeting component is immensely popular and closely rivals its emailing feature. But it is not without its faults, some of which can frustrate your efforts to get the best from the application.

How can I fix the Outlook meeting issues?

1. Outlook meeting not sending invites

According to Microsoft, this issue of Outlook meetings not sending invites has already been solved in the most recent versions of Outlook.

Those still using older Outlook programs are also in luck since several fixes work. Here they are (ForOutlook 2007and other legacy Outlook versions):

Creating a meeting directly from the program will send invitations to your intended contacts promptly.

Similarly, the easiest way to invite new guests is by adding them (their addresses) as recipients of the meeting notifications rather than by clicking invite/forward.

Updating your Microsoft Outlook program can also help to permanently get rid of this problem.

Steps (office 2010):

For Outlook 2013 (and above):

Enabling Microsoft’s automatic updates to include Microsoft Outlook makes your work easier as the program will be continuously updating without your intervention.

Here is how:

If you are yet to succeed, you can attempt to recreate the meeting using the normal steps on the calendar.

2. Outlook Meeting Not Showing In Calendar

You will need to modify the way Outlook displays the meeting features if outlook meetings feature fail to show on the calendar after creating a meeting. Here is how:

First, the scheduled meetings only show if the calendar’s category has been selected on the program’s left side.

Then, you may have to choose the correct view (Day/work week/month) depending on the schedule of meetings that you want to view.

Go to fix 2 if the categories are not visible.

Did you know you canupdate Outlook meeting without sending the update message? We have a guide that explains how to do this in detail, so be sure to check it out.

A custom view can also hide your meetings after setup so you should try to restore the factory view for the calendars folder:

3. Outlook Meeting won’t open/cancel/delete invites

For some reason, the option to cancel a meeting works when you are logged into your account using your Outlook Web Access/Office 365 portal details.

Users are only able to cancel meetings in which they are registered as organizers so ensure you’re the meeting organizer.

Sometimes the error is because of lingering Outlook performance/Sync issues. In this case, you should log out of your current Microsoft Outlook session then login again.

This refreshes your Outlook session and could allow you to cancel a meeting.

The issue of This meeting may be a result of a conflict with any of the installed Outlook add-ins. Try to disable all add-ins as explained below to see if you will succeed.

4. Outlook Meeting attachment won’t open

In certain instances, your Outlook account may refuse to open attachments from a phone (Android and Apple) or PCs despite being correctly set up.

Now, this problem could have several root causes and has even sucked in Microsoft in an attempt to get a permanent resolution. We suggest you try these ideas.

Then, those using older Outlook releases such as MS Outlook 2013 will need to further modify the registry for attachments made in the latest Outlook versions such as Outlook 2016 to open. Here is how:

5. Updating the Outlook app on Android/iOS

An easier fix is to log out of the current Outlook session and then come back in.

On the same note, sometimes restarting Outlook helps so attempt this if you are not yet successful.

For some Outlook editions including Outlook 2016, the fault is with the wrong trust center settings.

You thus need to edit the Trust center settings for all Microsoft products you typically use to open your Outlook meeting attachments including Microsoft Word and Excel:

The applicable attachment opening application needs to be available on your computer to access any attached files. For example, a PDF attachment won’t open if a relevantPDF readeris not installed.

Users thus need to confirm that the required file opening programs exist on their PCs.

We have reached the end of this guide on Outlook not sending meeting updates issues and other meeting-related problems. IfOutlook Scheduling Assistant is not showingon your PC, check our detailed guide to fix it.

It would also be helpful to read our guide onhow to copy attendees from an Outlook meeting. Do not forget to find out more abouttentative meetings in Outlook, a feature that confuses many.

Is there any meeting related-issue we missed? Feel free to list them in the comments below.

Outlook Meeting Issues: Here’s how you can Fix them#

How can I fix the Outlook meeting issues?#

1. Outlook meeting not sending invites#

2. Outlook Meeting Not Showing In Calendar#

3. Outlook Meeting won’t open/cancel/delete invites#

4. Outlook Meeting attachment won’t open#

5. Updating the Outlook app on Android/iOS#