I found a way to stop the inviations from being sent to everyone.
Outlook 2010
- - Double click on the calendar entry that has the invitation
- - File (on top at far left)
- - Move to Folder – select delete
- - You will be prompted to enter an email address – enter yours
The invitation will now be deleted and the copy only sent toyou. This is a pain and for me I had to do one by one since my reoccurring events did not transfer at reoccurring.
I beleive this will work in older version of outlook -
- Open your Outlook calendar and select the meeting item.
- Delete or cancel the meeting anyway you like.
- The meeting dialog will open and ask you if you want to send the notification. The attendees’ names are conveniently already entered in the To: field.
- Delete all the attendees’ email addresses and enter your own (or any other) email address.
- Mouse-click the Send Cancellation button.
My final solution:
Calendar: sync mycalendar with categories on MSN. I canalso use this on idevice and exchange
Email: leaving on icloud since I was on a mobile and that account is all organized. But, I still use my MSN address and forward my emails to icloud. Why? I was an early adapter to mobileme and it was very unstable. Over time I have grown to appreciate always having a clean email account where the originals are kept.
Contacts: At the moment they are on icloud but I am testing MSN.
Google is not a solution for me since I use more than one calendar and prefer to use categories. You also need to use an intermediary sync program and it was slow………. Plus I prefer the organization of outlook to Google.
Issues with icloud calendar that worked in mobileme:
1. Lost reoccurng events - they appear but not as reoccuring
2. Lost categories
3. There are actually fewer options in icloud!
4. Forced integration immediatly on all devices. This is huge - we should be allowed to test and use. Instead we could not access email, calendar or contacts until devices were updated.
For me this was a backwards step....
