Scheduling meeting on a linked calendar causes Zoom to redefine Zoom meeting title & recurrence

[wirawan0]

I am having an issue with Zoom’s way of grabbing recurrent meeting links and making it something other than what I intended it to be. 

The background: I have a habit of creating a few recurrent Zoom meeting ID that has a “Meet Anytime” attribute that I use for multiple meetings that have the same theme. For example, consider a case of someone working in academia: when I am consulting clients of a particular service, I have one Zoom link that I use all the time for that particular purpose. When I am teaching a workshop, I have one other Zoom link dedicated to all the workshops I teach. Then when I am mentoring students for project “X”, it will be another Zoom link. So, in my example above, there will be three Zoom meeting IDs that I want to maintain. 

The problem happens because I linked my Zoom calendar with my primary calendar, which happens to be Microsoft Office 365. When I paste a Zoom link to one meeting invite (sent via MS Outlook 365), then Zoom syncs in that meeting invite to its own calendar space, effectively creating a new Zoom meeting. But this has an undesirable side effect, that is, the recurrent Zoom ID was grabbed by Zoom and reassigned to that particular meeting. Worse, Zoom also changed the title of that reserved Zoom meeting ID to the title of the meeting. That is not what I want at all! Effectively, this changes my recurrent meeting to become a one-time or time-specified recurrent meeting. The one-time meeting cause a serious trouble, because within 30 days after the meeting, the meeting ID that I reserved for indefinitely recurrent uses will be deleted by Zoom. 

Can somebody help me navigate through this landmine? In other words, is there a way to prevent a recurrent, open-ended Zoom meeting ID from being hijacked by Zoom to become a non-recurrent Zoom meeting. 

How to reproduce: 

(1) Create a Zoom meeting ID on Zoom web platform as a “no fixed time” recurrent meeting. Give a title, say, “My most valued client meeting”. 

(2) Link another calendar to Zoom (in my case, Enterprise Office 365) so I can see the Office 365 calendar events on Zoom. 

(3) From the other calendar, create a meeting invite, and enter the Zoom meeting URL that was created in step (1) above as the “meeting location”. The title should be different from (1), let’s say, the event name is: “Discuss business proposal with CEO of ABC, LLC”. 

(4) Watch how the Zoom ID created in (1) above redefined in Zoom platform: The title becomes the same as the the calendar invite title (“Discuss business proposal with CEO of ABC, LLC”) and the recurrence becomes redefined to whatever (3) says. If it is a one-time meeting, then the recurrence of the meeting coordinate is GONE. 

What I want instead: 

Step (3) above should never redefine anything on the “no fixed time” meeting settings.