If it's a server side setting about the only thing you can do other than
mandating that setting is to work around the problem. Handle the test events
and use which ones fire to construct a logic tree to decide when to handle
Change on Open or Read or PropertyChange or whatever and when to ignore that
event.

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Ken Slovak
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"MIchael" wrote in message
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Hello Ken
now I have an idea whats changed in the folder and makes the event fi
1. the change event is only firing (if nothing is changed) with contacts
in an public! folder on the exchange server
2. it is not firing (if nothing is changed) in an personal folder (also on
an exchange server)
3. if one changes the properties settings of the contacts folder on the
exchange server from "keep read/unread information per user for this
folder" to not to keep ....(remove checkmark)
the event fires only the first time one contact is opened.
So it seems that a kind of read/unread attribute is toggled and that makes
the event fire

Do you have maybe any further idea to prevent the first firing?
Thanks
Michael