Outlook Meeting Request from Win Mobile shows meeting time as current time
Thanks, but that is not likely it. I can send (this is what I usually do) a
meeting invitation via email from the mobile device over the air. This does
not involve activesync (or WMDC in my case--Vista). It is not a time zone
issue, at least not an obvious one, like being off a set number of hours.
The "when" line of the invitation subject varies as to time the message is
sent, rounding up to the nearest half-hour. WHy I suspect something in
Outlook is that on my own PC, an invitation sent to myself from the phone
(again, not using activesync) will seem to update itself to the current time
and date as I look at it. It is like a "Word" date field that auto-updates
to current--at least that is how it appears. The actual calendar appointment
contained inside the invitation seems correct, however. The subject line
with "date, time" of meeting and the calendar item do not agree. Others have
reported this same issue and it has been guessed it may be an Exchange
issue. I think the common ground is somewhere in Pocket Outlook or Outlook.
Since it does not seem to happen to everyone, I am guessing it has to do
with how things are set up on the various computers. I had thought it might
be something Verizon did transmitting email over the air, but this exact
same thing happens when I use WMDC and sync my "inbox" so the mail is sent
when I connect to the main PC via regular Outlook. Someday, Microsoft is
going to find out there is a bug in there somewhere. I'm guessing on the
Pocket PC end the invitation is somehow not the same as the one sent by
"real" Outlook.
"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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Prilosec wrote:
I can't figure this out, although all the research I've done on the
internet shows some other people have a similar problem (with no
solution we could find). When sending a meeting request via email
(doesn't matter which; activesync, pop mail, etc.) the invitation
shows up in Outlook (tried both 2003 and 2007---same result) with the
"when" field populated with the current computer time and date or,
sometimes, with the date and time the message was sent. I do not have
this problem sending a meeting request from the desktop computer
using Oulook---works fine. In the incorrect message from WIndows
Mobile (have tried WM5, WM6 on 2 different devices--same result)
clicking on the "calendar" icon at the top of the message in Outlook
will bring you to the correct time and date for the meeting.
Seems to be a time zone issue to me. Ask in microsoft.public.pocketpc and
microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync. The interaction between a PDA and
Outlook is completely in the "hands" or the sync software.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
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