Calendars being dropped

[Mark Scott]

Hi

Sorry for the x-post as I am unsure whether this is an Exchange issue or an
Outlook issue.

I am running Outlook 2007 against an Exchange 2003 enterprise installation.
Corporate policy states that all users must have their calendar shared as
read-only. When I view people's calendars they appear fine in the "other
people's calendars" section in OUtlook 2007, but after time all the
calendars will disappear meaning I have to set them up from the GAL again.

Any ideas whats going on here?

Regards

Mark

 

[Guest]

Periodically, the list of shared Calendars will disappear and these Calendars
will need to be reopened to rebuild the list.

There are significant differences in the architecture of Microsoft Outlook
2003 and 2007, and in the case of People's Calendars, Microsoft Outlook 2007
stores the shared list in the user's mailbox on the Exchange Server instead
of locally on the client workstation thereby providing the list to multiple
clients accessing the mailbox. The downside to this approach is the potential
for network connectivity issues which might cause the data to be written
incorrectly or corrupted and not delivered properly to the client.

Microsoft has now stated as of 6/7/07 that there is a bug regarding shared
calendars disapperaing when users are in online mode. This fix is expected
to be rolled into Office 2007 SP1. In the meantime we recommend that you run
Outlook 2007 in cached Exchange mode if you are having this problem.