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. Here are some of Outlook’s Meeting issues and how to resolve them:

Outlook Meeting not showing in calendar Outlook Meeting not sending invites Updating the Outlook app on Android/iOS Outlook Meeting won’t open/cancel/delete invites Outlook Meeting attachment won’t open

Solutions to fix Outlook Meeting errors and bugs

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:

Fix 1: Select the Calendars Category (Outlook 2010 Going up)

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. — RELATED: Best Windows 10 Email Clients and Apps to Use

Fix 2: Reset The Calendar View (Outlook 2010 Going up)

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

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Outlook meeting not sending invites

According to Microsoft, this issue of outlook meeting 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 (For outlook 2007 and other legacy outlook versions):

Fix 1:  Create Meetings Directly

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.

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Fix 2:  Update the Meetings Tool

Updating your Microsoft outlook program can also help to permanently get rid of this problem. —READ ALSO: 6 best calendar apps for Windows 10 users Steps (office 2010):

For Outlook 2013 (and above):

Enabling Microsoft’s automatic updates to include Microsoft outlook make your work easier as the program will be continuously updating without your intervention. Here is how:

Fix 3:  Recreate The Meeting

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

Outlook Meeting won’t open/cancel/delete invites

It’s important to cancel meetings previously created in Outlook to allow those invited to reallocate that time for other business. But sometimes Outlook behaves as if it’s in freeze mode and will neither cancel nor open the meeting for cancellation. SPONSORED Here are possible solutions if you’re facing this problem:

Fix 1: Log Into Your Account Using OWA (Outlook Web Access)/Office 365 portal

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. Steps to follow:

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

Fix 2: Log Out Of Outlook Then Login

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. — RELATED: 9 best collaboration software and project management tools to use

 Fix 3: Disable All Adds-in

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

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.

Fix 1: Update Outlook

As I mentioned, Microsoft got involved in this issue and has released an update to address the same. So try to update your Outlook version as follows: 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:

Try to open the meeting attachment.

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Updating the Outlook app on Android/iOS

Microsoft also made an update to cater for the users unable to open attachments from the Outlook app on Android/iOS. To update:

Fix 2: Log Out Of Outlook

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.

Fix 3: Change Microsoft Trust Center Settings

For some outlook editions including Outlook 2016, the fault is with 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:

Uncheck the option Enabled Protected View for files originating from the internet Check the option Enabled Protected View for files located in potentially unsafe locations Uncheck the option Enabled Protected View for Outlook attachments

Fix 4: Ensure the relevant opening programs have been installed

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 relevant PDF reader is not installed. Users thus need to confirm that the required file opening programs exist in their PCs. RELATED STORIES YOU NEED TO CHECK OUT:

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