Dokoto wrote:

One of the common calendaring things we do at our company is
discontinue recurring meetings when a project is over. Yet when you
cancel the meeting, all meeting times (past, present and future) are
removed from the calendar. It's been too complicated to get people to
just change the unlimited end date to the last meeting date to cancel
future meetings only.

yahoo calendar for example presents a "cancel future meetings" option
which I think is more typical since you may want to preserve the
calendar as an archive of meetings you've had in the past.

My question is whether there is a server option to default
cancellation of recurring meetings to future meetings only? After
all, how can you 'cancel' a meeting that has already occured? The
meeting did happen.

Since Outlook recurring events are only one single entry in the calendar,
with the recurrences calculated on the fly, I think the best you can do is
to put an end dat on the recurrence and send an update.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]