ICS Event with Status:Cancelled is Being Re-Added to the Mac Outlook Calendar? - outlook

I sent this .ics event with an email:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:adamgibbons/ics
METHOD:REQUEST
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:RUo-Akvn-dNj7pve87fNv
SUMMARY:Appointment with your Nurse at mywebapp.com
DTSTAMP:20221211T001700Z
DTSTART:20221208T170400Z
SEQUENCE:2
DESCRIPTION:12/8 12:04pm
URL:https://www.mywebapp.com/
STATUS:CANCELLED
ORGANIZER;CN=John Smith
CLASS:PRIVATE
ATTENDEE;RSVP=FALSE;CN=John Smith
ATTENDEE;RSVP=FALSE;CN=Jane Smith
DURATION:PT15M
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
I have sent it via NodeMailer with a MailComposer object that looks like this:
Notice that the method is set in the icalEvent, to CANCEL. NodeMailer says that this is the way to set the method here.
According to this SO post, the event should be marked in Outlook as cancelled.
The .ics file I send is being received, but instead of cancelling the event, the event is re-added to the Outlook Calendar.
How can I correct this?

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BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
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CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
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DTEND:20220924T113000Z
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Everything is synced properly except the description part. However if i add the ics file directly in the calendar by importing, the description is reflected.
Can anyone please help me here?

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Below a working event -> a created event.
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
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VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
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DTEND:20220505T124000Z
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It works in Mail.app (os x) and GMail.
For example, I see this and this is perfect.
I'm also able to add this event to my calendar
However, I'm unable to cancel this event! Argh!
Below my cancelled event:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//mls//calendar//FR
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:CANCEL
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20220505T120000Z
DTEND:20220505T124000Z
DTSTAMP:20220503T210000Z
UID:uuidXYZ
ORGANIZER;CN=me#example.com:MAILTO:me#example.com
DESCRIPTION:xxxxxxxxxxx
LOCATION:somewhere
SEQUENCE:1
STATUS:CANCELLED
SUMMARY:something
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
Note that METHOD, SEQUENCE and STATUS have changed!
If I see this in Gmail (image below), the event DOESN'T disappear from my calendar... :-/
Do you have any idea why it's not working?
It's also not working in mail.app (OS X).
Thanks a lot!

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VERSION:2.0
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When I create an iCalendar on Outlook, I want to delete it on Outlook with importing the ics-cancel-file,but it gives me the message "The events could't be imported. Please try again later.Error message".
The event ics file:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 15.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
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PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 15.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:CANCEL
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DTSTAMP:20160504T072433Z
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Adding the 2nd file just change the Event's STATUS, which defines the overall status or confirmation for the calendar component (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5545#section-3.8.1.11)
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