Background
When on holiday I create a calendar entry with status Out of Office
, so people know I'm not available for meetings.
My boss wants me to add events to his calendar too so that he's aware when I (or others in our team) are not around without him having to look through everyone else's calendars. He's not joining us on vacation; so wants the status of the event he's invited to to be logged in his calendar as Free
.
Microsoft are aware of the above & recommend the same as we're doing here:
- Add your vacation time to coworkers' calendars
- Block out vacation time on your calendar
However, this means creating two events; one for my being out of the office, and one to inform my boss of the same.
Question
Is there a simple way to have an Outlook event show that I'm unavailable, whilst including others on the invite list (who will accept the invite) without it blocking out time in their calendars?