Outlook and Calendar

[pikk]

Hi,

I hope there are some Outlook 2000 experts cuz this one has me baffled. Our prez tried to delete a meeting in his Outlook calendar (as it was cancelled) and when he opened it and hit delete the darn thing froze. No big deal, right? Well, that's what I thought but now it's stuck there for good it seems. After recovering Outlook and re-opening this meeting request, he no longer has any permissions on it. Can't move it, delete it...nothing. I run Ex Srv 5.5 here.

Any help...appreciated

Pikk

 

[maxmanbug]

This happened to one of my users. The meeting got corrupted and it will not allow the user to do anything to it. I ended up exporting the calendar information all dates prior to the day with the corruption and then all info after the date. You then have to clear the calendar and import the two export files. This leaves a blank day in the calendar, but you have to ask how important is that. One thing that you should keep in mind is that the corruption may grow into a larger issue or may remain stable. If your user is a palm user they may have trouble with a synch.

 

[pikk]

Thanks maxman. This will probably do it. I was hoping that this was a bug but...

One other question for you if you don't mind.

-I seem to have a problem when my users send internet email to employees using Outlook. What I mean is that if someone here has an alias in Exchange like "pikk" for instance and their inet address is pikk@somewhere.com (also in Exchange...then when a user wants to send to their inet address only...it will always default to their internal address instead. It seems to always grab their internal address first. I take it this is common and probably only a setting change somewhere but I can't figure it out.

Thanks again!!

 

[tiger24]

I have seen this as well and just thought that Exchange would automatically look at the internal addresses and if it found the address there it would send the message internally and if it didn't then it would send it to the Internet mail account.

 

[beckas]

You can tell Outlook the order of the address lists that it should use to resolve e-mail addresses.

In Outlook, go to "Tools" and then go to "Services"
Click on the "Addressing" tab.
You can change the setting to search your contact list or personal address book first by changing the sort order under "When sending mail, check names using these address lists in the following order".

After you apply the changes, close and relaunch Outlook for the changes to take place. Just be aware that if you tell Outlook to search the contacts and personal address book first, you may run into calendar issues later on since these settings resolve names for the Outlook calendar as well.

 

[pikk]

beckas

Thanks for the tip but I have gone through this as well and it does not make a difference. I'm beginning to think that this is just one of those little MS suprises that no one ever complains enough about to warrant a fix. I'd like to find out though if anyone using Ex2000 has the same problems.

Thanks again.

P'