Outlook blocks Meeting Copy

I share here some solutions to workaround Outlook blocking copying meetings or how to duplicate a meeting.

Outlook: Change meeting time if not organizer

Following scenario: I got a meeting invitation but the meeting took longer than the planned time e.g. 50min instead of 30min. I would like to update this meeting in my Outlook calendar to reflect the real time used for it.

Outlook: Automatically Mark Appointment As Private (VBA)

I would like when becoming an appointment sent from my personal Google Calendar or containing some keywords like the firstname of my children to have them marked in my work Outlook as private automatically.

I explain here how I have achieved this using some VBA code.

Outlook Trap: Get Real Email of Meeting Organizer (VBA)

I have stumbled upon a nontrivial use case for automatically handling items in Outlook VBA based on the Sender Email. This is when the item was sent "on behalf of".

Outlook: How to automatically categorize emails and meetings based on recipients/sender email domain (VBA)

I share in this post a very convenient way to automatically categorize your emails and appointments

(use case: highlight customer) based on some rules like the email domain used in the distribution list.

This is based on some VBA code.

Outlook: Never forget Meeting Reminders

In some cases in Microsoft Outlook, you might miss a meeting because no reminder was set. This can be quite annoying e.g. for a customer meeting.

Outlook: How to flag an email as complete with a hotkey

I like to use email flagging in Microsoft Outlook quite a lot and there I love to have a custom hotkey for handling it. I share how to achieve this: one implemented with AutoHotkey in the PowerTool Outlook Shortcuts and one implemented in VBA.

Outlook: Move Email to secondary Tasks Calendar

In Microsoft Outlook, I like to use a secondary Calendar for planning my Tasks. This has the advantage not to block my main calendar by default (else you have to be careful to mark the appointment as Free) and have a clear split between Meetings and personal Tasks management.

I present here my way to "put" an email into my Tasks calendar in one click without duplicating content and with a real link from the Calendar entry to the original email.

Outlook VBA: How to get Appointment Organizer or Email Sender Email

I have struggled to find out this one: How to get a Microsoft Outlook Appointment Organizer in VBA.

I needed this for this nice Outlook to Teams Chat Macro.

I share here my learning and final solution.

Outlook to Teams Group Chat (VBA)

The integration between Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams has still room for improvement.

(Right now you can forward and email to a channel using the channel email and share a conversation from Teams by email)

The nice Reply with IM only opens a chat with the From recipient. (1-1 chat) and with Reply All with IM it replies to all Recipients in To AND Cc. Also the name of the chat does not reflect the outlook item subject (contrary to Skype IM integration)

A common use case is from an Email or a Meeting you want to generate a Group Chat with the same list of recipients.

I present here a workaround based on VBA.

This post is a Work-In-Progress and will be continuously improved based on the interest/ comments.