Hy everyone,

At our organization we have a public calendar that is mail enabled
People invite the calendar and the meetings are added automatically.

When someone opens an existing meeting from the public calendar
the item is automatically copied to his personal calendar, which is starting
to annoy a lot of people

I have searched the newsgroups and it seems i'm not alone with this
issue.

We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2.

Thanks for your help,

Ilan

I have tried to duplicate that behavior, without success. If you can provide exact steps to create a folder that reproduces the phenomenon, that would be great.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ilan" wrote in message ...
Hy everyone,

At our organization we have a public calendar that is mail enabled
People invite the calendar and the meetings are added automatically.

When someone opens an existing meeting from the public calendar
the item is automatically copied to his personal calendar, which is starting
to annoy a lot of people

I have searched the newsgroups and it seems i'm not alone with this
issue.

We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2.

Thanks for your help,

Ilan

Hy Sue Mosher,

I'll be glad to provide the exact steps ...

1. Create a new Calendar in the public folders with OUTLOOK.
2. Once created, mail-enable the folder in Exchange System Manager.
3. Update the recipient update service.
4. Create a new appointment and invite the public folder.
5. The new appointment is automatically added to the public calendar.
6. Open the appointment with any user that can view the public calendar and
the item copies itself to the personal calendar.


Thanks for your quick response,

Ilan

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I have tried to duplicate that behavior, without success. If you can provide exact steps to create a folder that reproduces the phenomenon, that would be great.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ilan" wrote in message ...
Hy everyone,

At our organization we have a public calendar that is mail enabled
People invite the calendar and the meetings are added automatically.

When someone opens an existing meeting from the public calendar
the item is automatically copied to his personal calendar, which is starting
to annoy a lot of people

I have searched the newsgroups and it seems i'm not alone with this
issue.

We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2.

Thanks for your help,

Ilan

Sue have you been able to reproduce the problem ?

Thanks for your help,

Ilan

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I have tried to duplicate that behavior, without success. If you can provide exact steps to create a folder that reproduces the phenomenon, that would be great.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ilan" wrote in message ...
Hy everyone,

At our organization we have a public calendar that is mail enabled
People invite the calendar and the meetings are added automatically.

When someone opens an existing meeting from the public calendar
the item is automatically copied to his personal calendar, which is starting
to annoy a lot of people

I have searched the newsgroups and it seems i'm not alone with this
issue.

We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2.

Thanks for your help,

Ilan

Thanks for giving us a procedure to test. I finally had some time to try this and it does repro on Outlook 2003 SP2. The fact that the public folder is mail-enabled apparently is the key factor.

The good news is that Outlook 2007, which made a lot of major changes in how meeting requests are processed, does not exhibit this behavior. If you want to weigh in on getting it fixed for Outlook 2003, the best way to do that is to file a formal incident with Microsoft Support. I doubt that it will be fixed in a service pack, though. They already made some significant tweaks of scheduling in SP1 or SP2 for Outlook 2003. Seems to me that if it were easily fixed without breaking something else, it might have been fixed in that earlier SP.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Ilan" wrote in message ...
Hy Sue Mosher,

I'll be glad to provide the exact steps ...

1. Create a new Calendar in the public folders with OUTLOOK.
2. Once created, mail-enable the folder in Exchange System Manager.
3. Update the recipient update service.
4. Create a new appointment and invite the public folder.
5. The new appointment is automatically added to the public calendar.
6. Open the appointment with any user that can view the public calendar and
the item copies itself to the personal calendar.


Thanks for your quick response,

Ilan

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

I have tried to duplicate that behavior, without success. If you can provide exact steps to create a folder that reproduces the phenomenon, that would be great.

"Ilan" wrote in message ...
Hy everyone,

At our organization we have a public calendar that is mail enabled
People invite the calendar and the meetings are added automatically.

When someone opens an existing meeting from the public calendar
the item is automatically copied to his personal calendar, which is starting
to annoy a lot of people

I have searched the newsgroups and it seems i'm not alone with this
issue.

We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 with Outlook 2003 SP2.