Hide Recipients - like BCC for meetings

How to send a meeting request to many and keep email addresses confidential.

Hide Recipients - like BCC for meetings

A question that often arises is – can I BCC a meeting request? Meaning can I send the same meeting request to multiple recipients and keep their email addresses confidential?

Well up to the advent of The New Outlook the answer was no. Which was quite frustrating.

Now in The New Outlook you can send one meeting request to many people and keep their email addresses private.

Star the meeting request as normal. Add your title and start to add the email addresses.

Click on Response Options and select Hide Attendee List .

Response Options - Hide attendees list — Figure 2 - Hide Attendees list

Now the recipients will only see their own email address. It works just like BCC when sending an email.

What the Recipients See

When the email invitation arrives, the recipients see only their own email address.

Recipient View — Figure 2 - what the recipient sees

Once my Outlook.com account accepts the invite goes into my calendar and when I open it – I don’t see any other email addresses apart from the sender.

Recipient does not see other invitees — Figure 3 - Recipient only see their own invite

What will you use this for? Have a go and let me know how you get on.

Categories: : New Outlook