Outlook Meeting Recurrence Issue - Owner Deleted

[ADW2005]

A meeting recurrence was sent and the owner has since left the company. Subsequently that owner has been deleted and the meeting details cannot be edited, i.e. the date and time that were set up to recurr every week.

Any ideas anyone? How can we change ownership? Ideally I'd like to delete all occurrences and give someone else the option of organising the meeting.

 

[DPlank]

Suggest you get whoever admins the system to delete the meetings.

Cheers,
Dave

Probably the only Test Analyst Manager on Tek-Tips...therefore whatever it was that went wrong, I'm to blame...

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[ADW2005]

Well thats my question - I realise they ll have to be deleted but I can't see any option for it on the exchange server(5.5 by the way) and the originating persons email account has been deleted...
Other people included in the meeting cannot outright delete all recurrences

 

[DPlank]

Can you re-create the userid (essentially resurrect the deleted user) and use this to remove the meetings?

Or restore the user from a backup and delete the meetings that way?

Use the admin account to simply delete the meeting from all user's calendars?

I don't know a great deal about Outlook, so if none of those will help, I'm stuffed.

Cheers,
Dave

Probably the only Test Analyst Manager on Tek-Tips...therefore whatever it was that went wrong, I'm to blame...

animadverto vos in Abyssus!

Take a look at Forum1393!

 

[jimp56]

you can use a utility on the exchange 5.5 CD called mdbvu.exe to manually delete certain items out of the information store on the server. i'd suggest looking at the resource kit or technet for more info on how to use it. MS used to have a kb link that explained it pretty well but they yanked it for some reason...

maybe someone else has had experience with it and can post a documentation link....