Here is the scenario: Server is Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 and client is Outlook 2010

- You use Microsoft Outlook to schedule a meeting and invite attendees. 
- The attendees accept or decline the meeting but some choose NOT to send their meeting responses.
- In the tracking for the calendar event, only those who actually emailed a response are updated.

Is this the expected behavior? Exchange uses email to track invitation responses? We have many people who accept meeting invitations but choose not to send a response to reduce overall email clutter. Anecdotally, I hear this was not the case in earlier versions of Exchange.

Thank you.

Hi,

If we are talking about the Meeting Tracking window in Calendar, the status will be updated when the attendee sends a response. If the attendee doesn't send the response, which means Outlook doesn't get an answer, then Tracking information won't be updated.

Assuming the organizer knows the attendees have accepted the request, he can switch to the tracking page then click in the Response field and select a response.

Regards.

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

• Marked as answer by Melon Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:38 AM

Outlook should know the meeting request was accepted (by the invitee) and the response should change. 

This certainly seems like a product flaw to me.