cant accept meeting requests

[Guest]

Windows XP, IBM Thinkpad, Windows 2003, Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8132) SP2

shared calendar with Principal; no longer can he accept meeting requests I
send to him. Dont know why this stopped, and dont know how to fix.

only professional help & experts need post replies; too many snippy comments
received to previous replies.
Reets
p: 513-936-9400
f: 513-936-8400

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What happens when he tries?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, Reets asked:

| Windows XP, IBM Thinkpad, Windows 2003, Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8132)
| SP2
|
| shared calendar with Principal; no longer can he accept meeting
| requests I send to him. Dont know why this stopped, and dont know how
| to fix.
|
| only professional help & experts need post replies; too many snippy
| comments received to previous replies.
| Reets
| p: 513-936-9400
| f: 513-936-8400

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

When you post to a public help forum, you do not get to dictate who replies, if anyone at all does. If you want professional help, then get out your wallet and contact microsoft product support services. However, many of the folks here are already IT professionals and are perfectly capable of answering your questions.

And, by the way, your prior post did not elicit any wise cracks or other untowards responses. If you believe it did, then you need to contact a professional for assistance as these forums are obviously not the place to seek the kind of IT assistance you require.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Reets asked:

| Windows XP, IBM Thinkpad, Windows 2003, Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8132)
| SP2
|
| shared calendar with Principal; no longer can he accept meeting
| requests I send to him. Dont know why this stopped, and dont know how
| to fix.
|
| only professional help & experts need post replies; too many snippy
| comments received to previous replies.
| Reets
| p: 513-936-9400
| f: 513-936-8400

 

[Guest]

Milly, thank you for giving Reets that clarification. I noticed on
Microsofts Security Bulletin Summary page there are a few office critical
updates for May KB934873, is it possible that this could be the culprit?

 

[Guest]

He can neiter click accept/decline or the other two options; I dont have it
open.

 

[Guest]

now tell me, who put the crack in the reply about headscratching-I certainly
did not add this.

It seems that lately all I've been directed to do is go down a deeper black
hole. In my job I am not literate to what tech language professional IT
developers/Support personnel use. If you are going to speak to a layman,
please use layman terms please, that's all I ask. Dont reply by sending me
(mefjijeOffice 034) answers I do not understand. Someone without credentials
listed, tells me to do this, but I dont want to change any emails, settings,
contacts, there is just too much that can't be wiped out.

 

[Guest]

Again, code used is not understood.

Thanks
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Reets
p: 513-936-9400
f: 513-936-8400

Milly, thank you for giving Reets that clarification. I noticed on
Microsofts Security Bulletin Summary page there are a few office critical
updates for May KB934873, is it possible that this could be the culprit?

When you post to a public help forum, you do not get to dictate who replies, if anyone at all does. If you want professional help, then get out your wallet and contact microsoft product support services. However, many of the folks here are already IT professionals and are perfectly capable of answering your questions.

And, by the way, your prior post did not elicit any wise cracks or other untowards responses. If you believe it did, then you need to contact a professional for assistance as these forums are obviously not the place to seek the kind of IT assistance you require.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Reets asked:

| Windows XP, IBM Thinkpad, Windows 2003, Outlook 2003 (11.8118.8132)
| SP2
|
| shared calendar with Principal; no longer can he accept meeting
| requests I send to him. Dont know why this stopped, and dont know how
| to fix.
|
| only professional help & experts need post replies; too many snippy
| comments received to previous replies.
| Reets
| p: 513-936-9400
| f: 513-936-8400

 

[Guest]

Layman here: THANKS

RE: Option 3
I have tried to be polite, and even spell things correctly and
punctuate...I've noticed some people just dont care.

RE: Option 4:
as far as I know I had the details up front... according to the first post
5-25-09:03 am. Unless somebody changed the info I initially posted??

Again: excuse me for not being so Tech hands on. My job description is for
an assistant, not some one trained in computer programming, or any other
technical field. We have had tons, (literally every time I turn around) of
problems and tech support was so expensive, including, importing contacts
from *.pst file would import all the information: names, addresses, phone
nos., except the email address! There were no email address on over two
thousand contacts????? How in the world does that happen? Did that happen to
you too?

Invers, I dont know how you are viewing the groups and the web page and all,
but I did have all the info in the first post. I hate to put you in your
place.

Thank you for the help.
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Reets
p: 513-936-9400
f: 513-936-8400

Reets you are laughable.

Let me put it in your 'laymans' terms.

Option #1
Reinstall outlook. This is EASILY done by being carefull. Save any
pst files that he has somewhere safe, uninstall office, reinstall
office. Hell, you can even just to a custom reinstall and just select
outlook and nothing else.
Option #2
Check the windows udpate code quoted by Milly. Hell, just google it.
You'll find where they are.
Option #3
Stop bagging people that try and help. If your original message had
words to the effect of "sorry I am very undertrained when it comes to
how this works and IT terms, so please put things simply so I can
understand' then we all would have understood and been a bit more
simple.
Option #4
Put all the details of your problem first up. Eg.
"My user is using outlook 2003. Up until today everything was fine,
now when he goes to accept a meeting request, it won't let him. The
buttons to accept, deny, propose are there but clicking them does
nothing. ALSO there is a message that says "the meeting is not in the
calendar. it may have been moved or deleted"

I am having the exact same issue, and although I cannot give you a
response so far, a correct first post will save you ( and us ) lots of
time!

Again, code used is not understood.

Thanks
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Reets
p: 513-936-9400
f: 513-936-8400


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Milly, thank you for giving Reets that clarification. I noticed on
Microsofts Security Bulletin Summary page there are a few office critical
updates for May KB934873, is it possible that this could be the culprit?

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[Brian Tillman]

We have had tons, (literally every time I
turn around) of problems and tech support was so expensive,
including, importing contacts from *.pst file would import all the
information: names, addresses, phone nos., except the email address!

Importing is fraught with problems. Never import from a PST. You lose
data. Simply open the PST with File>Open>Outlook Data File and copy the
information it contains to where you'd like it.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I have 40/20 hindsight!

 

[Guest]

Thanks, oddly enough, it works today. Gary says he doent know what happen.
Now I'm confused!?

 

[Ramin]

Thanks, oddly enough, it works today. Gary says he doent know what happen.
Now I'm confused!?

I had the same exact problem. I quit Outlook a number of times (or so
I thought I did) and it didnt fix the problem. What you have to do is
quit Outlook, go into task manager and End Task on OUTLOOK and WINWORD
and then start up Outlook again. This fixed the problem for me.