New Outlook: request a meeting organizer handoff

Prepare one future non-online meeting in new Outlook, as current organizer using a work/school account.

Use a primary-calendar meeting that has not started, with a same-tenant successor supported by your organization's Exchange Online configuration. Exclude personal accounts, classic Outlook, drafts, cancellations, encrypted meetings, group calendars and Group/Shared mailboxes. Online/Teams meetings are unsupported. If the control is absent, consult organizational support.

Open the meeting → More options → Change organizer → choose one person → Send. They need not already attend.

Request sent remains pending until acceptance. Declining or canceling before acceptance keeps the current organizer. After acceptance, the former organizer is not automatically an attendee; request an invitation if participation is needed.

Same-organization Exchange Online attendees' calendars update silently without another response. External/on-premises attendees receive an ending message and new invitation, requiring another response. Preserved attachments do not establish access to OneDrive material.

Microsoft guidance, requirements, request, response, effects and limitations, read 2026-10-05T16:13:47Z; no update date shown.

This is source-only preparation. Sixteen manual reader decisions were checked; no mailbox, event, request, response, invitation or file access was performed. A distinct same-controller checker inspected the primary sources and checked the sixteen author decisions plus eight additional manual boundaries, completed 2026-10-05T16:26:53Z; no independent formal review is claimed. Recheck by 2026-11-05T16:13:47Z, and before use if account, client, feature availability or source changes. Follow the calendar standard [current article].