Delete or cancel recurring meeting invites

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Delete or cancel recurring meeting invites

Roger Roger 7,631

Hi all

One of my user(roger@Company portal .com) has set recurring meeting invites and he is currently on vacation. how i delete/cancel the recurring meeting invites created by him by meeting subject name
for example
Meeting Subject is TEST1
sender is roger@Company portal .com

I am not sure how to use Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com using subject line

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,456 Reputation points Moderator

2020-08-21T05:43:42.27+00:00

Hi @Roger Roger ,

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Ashok M 6,876

Hi Roger,

I would suggest to delete it from a delegated owner/editor of that calendar or provide full access permission temporarily and login using OWA to delete the recurring meeting.

If needs to be done only using powershell, try using Search-Mailbox instead of Remove-CalendarEvents since to my knowledge, we wouldn't be filter one meeting invite using Remove-CalendarEvents.

Search-Mailbox -identity “******@contoso.com” -SearchQuery kind:meetings AND subject:”TEST1” -EstimateResultsOnly

Search-Mailbox -identity “******@contoso.com” -SearchQuery kind:meetings AND subject:”TEST1” -DeleteContent

Reference: https://sysadminguides.org/2018/06/03/how-to-fix-delete-recurring-meetings-using-powershell-exchange-mailbox/

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Shahad Fakhi 1 Reputation point

2022-09-13T13:37:59.777+00:00
When I am running the search mailbox command I am getting the below error I even ran the connect-IPPSSession module first and then ran the command still I am having issues.

Search-Mailbox: The term 'Search-Mailbox' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

Search-Mailbox -Identity Marek_Trantina@J Edwards .com -SearchQuery 'SOX ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Search-Mailbox:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Please help with how to proceed further.
Chris Gilhooly 0 Reputation points

2024-09-05T22:09:02.5266667+00:00

I found that search-mailbox is now deprecated for cloud. Is there a way to do this with New-ComplianceSearch?

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Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,456 Reputation points Moderator

2020-08-21T05:43:42.27+00:00

Hi @Roger Roger ,

Just checked in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any questions or need further help on this issue, please feel free to post back.

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Shahad Fakhi 1 Reputation point

2022-09-13T13:37:59.777+00:00

When I am running the search mailbox command I am getting the below error I even ran the connect-IPPSSession module first and then ran the command still I am having issues.

Search-Mailbox: The term 'Search-Mailbox' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1

Search-Mailbox -Identity Marek_Trantina@J Edwards .com -SearchQuery 'SOX ...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Search-Mailbox:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

Please help with how to proceed further.
Chris Gilhooly 0 Reputation points

2024-09-05T22:09:02.5266667+00:00

I found that search-mailbox is now deprecated for cloud. Is there a way to do this with New-ComplianceSearch?

Answer 1

Roger Roger 7,631

i want to remove the calendar invites using meeting subject Name, will the below syntax work?

Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com -CancelOrganizedMeetings "kind:meetings AND Subject:'TEST1'"

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Answer 2

Roger Roger 7,631

search mailbox syntax is depreciated now, can this by done by Remove-CalendarEvents
something like the below
Remove-CalendarEvents -Identity roger@Company portal .com -CancelOrganizedMeetings "kind:meetings AND Subject:'TEST1'"

Ashok M 6,876 Reputation points

2020-08-18T06:41:18.903+00:00
Could you please provide the detailed version of your exchange server.

Get-ExchangeServer | select Name,Admindisplayversion

Also, for recurring meeting, it is better to cancel rather deleting it. So, please try to use delegated owner/editor of that user's calendar and cancel the invite or assign full access temporarily and cancel using OWA.

Also, "CancelOrganizedMeetings" in Remove-CalendarEvents does not accept the value and its used to cancel all future meetings and no option to filter for specific invite.

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You can try using New-ComplainceSearch instead of Search-Mailbox

New-ComplianceSearch -Name "DeleteMeeting" -ExchangeLocation "******@contoso.com" -ContentMatchQuery "(Subject:"TEST1")" Start-ComplianceSearch -Name "DeleteMeeting" New-ComplianceSearchAction -SearchName "DeleteMeeting" -Preview

You can use Export/Purge in above command.

Answer 3

Hi @Roger Roger ,

Agree with @Ashok M that it's not suggested to use Remove-CalendarEvents as it cannot be used to remove a particular meeting. For more information, you may read Remove-CalendarEvents.

According to this article, the Search-Mailbox cmdlet is now still available to the latest versions like Exchange 2019:

I tested in my Exchange 2016 lab using the powershell command similar to below and it successfully delete the meeting series from both the organizer and the attendees:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "kind:meetings AND Subject:'Test1' AND From:******@contoso.com" -EstimateResultOnly  
Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Search-Mailbox -SearchQuery "kind:meetings AND Subject:'Test1' AND From:******@contoso.com" -DeleteContent

Note1: The Search-Mailbox cmdlet returns up to 10000 results per mailbox if a search query is specified.
Note2: You need to be assigned the Mailbox Import Export management role to use this -DeleteContent switch.

If you still have concern on this and prefer using other alternatives, as suggested by AshokM that you can use the New-ComplianceSearch and New-ComplianceSearchAction cmdlets instead. Here's an occifial document for your reference:
Search for and delete messages in Exchange Server

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,456 Reputation points Moderator

2020-08-24T09:17:01.73+00:00

I'd like to follow up with you to see if there is any progress. Thanks!

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Gordon English 0 Reputation points

2023-02-21T22:38:12.4733333+00:00

search mailbox is a bogus command. it will return cmdlet not recognized