Prevent forwarding of a meeting

8/13/2020


As a meeting organizer, you can choose whether to allow attendees to forward a meeting invitation to others. When creating a meeting request, you can only use this option if your mailbox is hosted in Microsoft 365 or in Exchange Server 2019.

Notes: 

  • If you don’t know if your mailbox is hosted in Microsoft 365, contact your helpdesk.
  • This feature isn't affected by the use of Information Rights Management.

How to prevent forwarding of a meeting

When you create or edit a meeting, you can choose to allow or prevent forwarding of the meeting invitation. The option to allow forwarding is turned on by default.

However, if you turn off this option, attendees included on the meeting invitation won't be able to forward the meeting to others. As the meeting organizer, you'll still be able to add attendees by editing the meeting.

Outlook for Windows or Outlook for Mac

  • Go to your calendar  .
  • Select New Meeting.
  • Select Response Options from the meeting toolbar.
  • Select Allow Forwarding to remove the checkmark.

Outlook on the web for Office 365

  • Go to your calendar  .
  • Select New event.
  • Select Response options from the meeting toolbar.
  • Select Allow forwarding to remove the checkmark.

Outlook on the web for Exchange 2019

  • Go to your calendar.
  • Select New event.
  • Add attendees.
  • Select Response options  from Attendees.
  • Select Allow forwarding to remove the checkmark.

Outlook clients where forwarding can be prevented

You can prevent forwarding when you create or update meetings in the following Outlook clients:

Outlook client

Currently supported

Outlook on the web

For Microsoft 365 and Exchange 2019 users

Outlook for Windows

For Microsoft 365 users
* Available for Current Channel (version 1808 or later)
* Available for Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (version 1902 and later)

Outlook for Mac

For Microsoft 365 users
* Available for 16.20 (18120801) and later

Outlook for iOS

Not supported yet

Outlook for Android

Not supported yet

Note: To see what version of Outlook for Windows or Outlook for Mac that you're using, in Outlook go to About Outlook by selecting File > Office Account.

 

Source: Microsoft