Meetings scheduled between Outlook 2000 and 2003

[jthork]

When I schedule meetings with users of different Outlook
versions, the meeting notifications do not come thru with
the choices to Accept, Tentative, Decline, etc. They are
purely coded text as in:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT

Is there a way to make the other versions "read" my newer
meetings?

(I have Oulook 2003, most other users I schedule with
have 2000 or 2002.)

 

[Neil]

I've been using o2003 for 8 months or so with everyone else using 2000 and
I've not had any problems.

so the users actually see the vcalendar code ? something weird gone on with
MIME settings I think, is there anything else different about how your PC is
connected - is it on the lan with the same server settings?

N

 

[jthork]

Yes, the code is what they get. We're on the same network
and I assume the same mail server settings, altho' I
think some people list the server name (mail.abc.com)
versus the IP address.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Try sending the meeting request without a reminder and see if that helps.
There is a known issue with sending meeting requests with reminders from
Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2000, and it may apply to Outlook 2003 as well.

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[Anoop]

This workaround is okay and all assuming you dont want to send a
reminder. Is there any other way to ensure that the users of older
Outlook versions have access to this, perhaps a freeware conversion
plugin or something.

How does one transition a small company that cant afford a complete
one pass rollout to new technologies to new software? Looks like they
[Microsoft] dropped the ball on this one... Lets give them everything
but the Reminder!

 

[Anoop]

Don't use the iCal format.

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A colleague of mine at work had a slightly different
suggestion for fixing this problem. I tested it, and it
seemed to work for me.

In Tools -- Options -- Calendar Options, in the Advanced
Options section, uncheck the option for using the
iCalendar format.

from this URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=...ow=1&q=outlook+2000+2003+reminder&sa=N&tab=wg


In Tools -- Options -- Calendar Options, in the Advanced
Options section, uncheck the option for using the
iCalendar format.
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I tested this with machines using Outlook 2002 & 2003 sending messages
to 2000. The meeting event then contains the reminder correctly.