2006 Holidays?
 

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't tried to
find the download but it may be missing again until the file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
are added only through 2007, while other holidays are added through 2012
(such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several holidays are added for 2005 even
though 2005 holidays already may be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through 20012, and
manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays. Uninstalling holidays before
installing the patch or update would not be good because that would
uninstall holidays for years prior to 2005, and I don't want to delete those
prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link provided by
SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

I've tried everything in this string of posts and nothing seems to work.
Downloading the update from the Microsoft website gives you and outlhol.exe
file and not the .txt file mentioned. Each time I've tried, it says the
holidays have been sucessfully updated, but when I add them to my calendar,
it still ends at Dec 31, 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't tried to
find the download but it may be missing again until the file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
are added only through 2007, while other holidays are added through 2012
(such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several holidays are added for 2005 even
though 2005 holidays already may be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through 20012, and
manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays. Uninstalling holidays before
installing the patch or update would not be good because that would
uninstall holidays for years prior to 2005, and I don't want to delete those
prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link provided by
SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

Did you read the message of mine that you replied to? The revised update,
which should hopefully work properly in all ways, is being worked on and is
not yet ready for release. You'll have to either wait for it or you can just
do what I did and add the holidays to your calendar manually as recurring
annual events. (I realize this doesn't work for all holidays, such as
Easter, which doesn't follow a simple pattern so each year's instance would
have to be added one by one.)

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"JJL" wrote:

I've tried everything in this string of posts and nothing seems to work.
Downloading the update from the Microsoft website gives you and outlhol.exe
file and not the .txt file mentioned. Each time I've tried, it says the
holidays have been sucessfully updated, but when I add them to my calendar,
it still ends at Dec 31, 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't tried to
find the download but it may be missing again until the file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
are added only through 2007, while other holidays are added through 2012
(such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several holidays are added for 2005 even
though 2005 holidays already may be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through 20012, and
manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays. Uninstalling holidays before
installing the patch or update would not be good because that would
uninstall holidays for years prior to 2005, and I don't want to delete those
prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link provided by
SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

It is now coming up to the middle of January. Why are we still waiting for
Microsoft to sort this out? It is really inconvenient not knowing the public
and religious holidays for 2006. I would have expected this update to have
been available since the middle of 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Did you read the message of mine that you replied to? The revised update,
which should hopefully work properly in all ways, is being worked on and is
not yet ready for release. You'll have to either wait for it or you can just
do what I did and add the holidays to your calendar manually as recurring
annual events. (I realize this doesn't work for all holidays, such as
Easter, which doesn't follow a simple pattern so each year's instance would
have to be added one by one.)

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"JJL" wrote:

I've tried everything in this string of posts and nothing seems to work.
Downloading the update from the Microsoft website gives you and outlhol.exe
file and not the .txt file mentioned. Each time I've tried, it says the
holidays have been sucessfully updated, but when I add them to my calendar,
it still ends at Dec 31, 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't tried to
find the download but it may be missing again until the file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please reply
only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
are added only through 2007, while other holidays are added through 2012
(such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several holidays are added for 2005 even
though 2005 holidays already may be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through 20012, and
manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays. Uninstalling holidays before
installing the patch or update would not be good because that would
uninstall holidays for years prior to 2005, and I don't want to delete those
prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link provided by
SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

I use the Earth Calendar at http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php to
find just about any holiday on the planet...I realize it doesn't solve
your Outlook calendar holidays issue but at least you don't have to
guess when a particular holiday will be this year or next.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


In ,
Joan wrote:
It is now coming up to the middle of January. Why are we still
waiting for Microsoft to sort this out? It is really inconvenient
not knowing the public and religious holidays for 2006. I would have
expected this update to have been available since the middle of 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Did you read the message of mine that you replied to? The revised
update, which should hopefully work properly in all ways, is being
worked on and is not yet ready for release. You'll have to either
wait for it or you can just do what I did and add the holidays to
your calendar manually as recurring annual events. (I realize this
doesn't work for all holidays, such as Easter, which doesn't follow
a simple pattern so each year's instance would have to be added one
by one.)

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
***


"JJL" wrote:

I've tried everything in this string of posts and nothing seems to
work. Downloading the update from the Microsoft website gives you
and outlhol.exe file and not the .txt file mentioned. Each time
I've tried, it says the holidays have been sucessfully updated, but
when I add them to my calendar, it still ends at Dec 31, 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't
tried to find the download but it may be missing again until the
file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
***


"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day are added only through 2007, while other holidays
are added through 2012 (such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several
holidays are added for 2005 even though 2005 holidays already may
be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through
20012, and manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays.
Uninstalling holidays before installing the patch or update would
not be good because that would uninstall holidays for years prior
to 2005, and I don't want to delete those prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link
provided by SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be
found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop
at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

This does not address the issue. It is really inconvenient not having public
and religious holidays in my calendar when arranging meetings. It would be
helpful to know when the MS update will be corrected and available for
download.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

I use the Earth Calendar at http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php to
find just about any holiday on the planet...I realize it doesn't solve
your Outlook calendar holidays issue but at least you don't have to
guess when a particular holiday will be this year or next.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered -- please
reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread. ***


In ,
Joan wrote:
It is now coming up to the middle of January. Why are we still
waiting for Microsoft to sort this out? It is really inconvenient
not knowing the public and religious holidays for 2006. I would have
expected this update to have been available since the middle of 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Did you read the message of mine that you replied to? The revised
update, which should hopefully work properly in all ways, is being
worked on and is not yet ready for release. You'll have to either
wait for it or you can just do what I did and add the holidays to
your calendar manually as recurring annual events. (I realize this
doesn't work for all holidays, such as Easter, which doesn't follow
a simple pattern so each year's instance would have to be added one
by one.)

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
***


"JJL" wrote:

I've tried everything in this string of posts and nothing seems to
work. Downloading the update from the Microsoft website gives you
and outlhol.exe file and not the .txt file mentioned. Each time
I've tried, it says the holidays have been sucessfully updated, but
when I add them to my calendar, it still ends at Dec 31, 2005.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't
tried to find the download but it may be missing again until the
file has been revised.

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

*** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
***


"Don Enderton" wrote:

There are, however, a couple of bugs: 1) Christmas Eve and
Christmas Day are added only through 2007, while other holidays
are added through 2012 (such as Groundhog Day, etc). 2) Several
holidays are added for 2005 even though 2005 holidays already may
be installed in Outlook 2002.

So I had to add Christmas Eve and Day manually for 2008 through
20012, and manually delete duplicated 2005 holidays.
Uninstalling holidays before installing the patch or update would
not be good because that would uninstall holidays for years prior
to 2005, and I don't want to delete those prior year holidays.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
As I wrote in another string, on a subsequent try, the link
provided by SNSSMIS worked for me.

- Don

"Don Enderton" wrote in message
...
SNSSMIS, the link you offer leads to a "The page cannot be
found" error.

Does that Microsoft link work for anyone now?

- Don

"SNSSMIS" wrote in message
...
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...llFile-ENU.exe

"Rippster" wrote:

I have Outlook 2002, how can I add 2006 Holidays? They stop
at 2005.

2006 Holidays?
 

Dear Joan, Dan, Jocelyn Fiorello, and all other Users of Outlook that are
frustrated by a lack of a reliable Calendar Update application for US
Holidays from Microsoft:

Well Jocelyn, it certainly seems like a poor excuse that "Microsoft is aware
of the problem...". I know you're trying as hard as you can, and you've
provided very good, detailed, information in your 7/30/2005 post concerning
ways to manually update the Outlook Calendar, but there is really no excuse
for a company the size of Microsoft not to provide the millions (yes,
Virginia, there are MILLIONS of Microsoft Office Users out there...) of users
around the world with an up-dated calendar.

I do NOT want to rake you "over the coals"; you've been chastized enough in
the blogs all over the net, including formal web pages (check out
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm). And the good people at
EarthCalendar.Net, a web site you recommend, only provide dates to 2007.
Perhaps they are underfunded. Most of us would like to update our calendars
until 2010, at the very least.

And then there is the issue of our legal holidays (referred to as "Observed"
by the Federal Government) v. traditional holiday dates. You've NEVER gotten
that function correct. And did anyone notice that Microsoft had Election Day
in 2005 falling on November 1ST??? By law this can NOT happen. It is ALWAYS
the first Tuesday AFTER the first Monday in November, so it can never fall on
November 1st.

Well, using three (3) different web sites, the Feds at www.opm.gov, a
"secular" calendar site created by the good Marcos Montes at
www.smart.net/mmontes-cgi-bin/ushols.cgi, and a Christian site to calculate
the dates for Easter (The first Sunday following the Full Moon on or after
the Vernal Equinox, set by the Western churches to always be March 21st), I
updated my OUTLOOK.HOL text file found in %root%\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office10\1033 using Notepad and updated all the entries from 2006 thru
2010.

Then after saving that file and using the internal Outlook options to add US
Holidays to my calendar as discribed by Jocelyn in her earlier post from
July, all the dates have been correctly added to my calendar.

You may be interested in the Easter Dates. In the format you need to add
them to the OUTLOOK.HOL file under the US Key, they a

Easter Sunday,2006/4/16
Easter Sunday,2007/4/8
Easter Sunday,2008/3/23
Easter Sunday,2009/4/12
Easter Sunday,2010/4/4

Good Luck everyone!

Jon

"Joan" wrote:

This does not address the issue. It is really inconvenient not having public
and religious holidays in my calendar when arranging meetings. It would be
helpful to know when the MS update will be corrected and available for
download.

"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

I use the Earth Calendar at http://www.earthcalendar.net/index.php to
find just about any holiday on the planet...I realize it doesn't solve
your Outlook calendar holidays issue but at least you don't have to
guess when a particular holiday will be this year or next.


"Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Microsoft is aware of those errors and is fixing them -- I haven't
tried to find the download but it may be missing again until the
file has been revised.

2006 Holidays?
 

CourtMCSE wrote:

I do NOT want to rake you "over the coals"; you've been chastized
enough in the blogs all over the net, including formal web pages
(check out http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/holidays.htm). And the
good people at EarthCalendar.Net, a web site you recommend, only
provide dates to 2007. Perhaps they are underfunded. Most of us would
like to update our calendars until 2010, at the very least.

What's stopping you? Microsoft's Knowledgebase explains in detail how to
create Holiday files of every ilk.

And did anyone notice that
Microsoft had Election Day in 2005 falling on November 1ST??? By law
this can NOT happen. It is ALWAYS the first Tuesday AFTER the first
Monday in November,

That's exactly where Outlook 2003 had it for me, right where it should be.

Then after saving that file and using the internal Outlook options to
add US Holidays to my calendar as discribed by Jocelyn in her earlier
post from July, all the dates have been correctly added to my
calendar.

So you have what you want. Problem solved. Thanks for an informative post
about the remaining Easter occurrences. It came in handy.
--
Brian Tillman

2006 Holidays?
 

Dear Brian:

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

What's stopping you? Microsoft's Knowledgebase explains in detail how to
create Holiday files of every ilk.


Well, with ANY search engine it's often how you ask the question... I was
searching for an "UPDATE" application in the DOWNLOADS area of the OUTLOOK
web-site, not for KB articles on how to manually create a holiday calendar.

Once I did that search, I found KB161587 & KB180985 that refer to the
holiday calendar in the old OUTLOOK.TXT file. Then KB811544 said "Outlook XP
calendar only goes to 2005" by design. However it DID point to KB280976 which
listed the correct OUTLOOK.HOL file for XP and where it was located and how
to edit it with a test editor.

And did anyone notice that
Microsoft had Election Day in 2005 falling on November 1ST??? By law
this can NOT happen. It is ALWAYS the first Tuesday AFTER the first
Monday in November,

That's exactly where Outlook 2003 had it for me, right where it should be.


I have a licansed copy of Office 2003 we bought for evaluation and sure
enough, that calendar file DID have November 8th, 2005 as the correct
Election Day. Office XP however lists November 1st, 2005. I'm using the
Office XP version that all my users have on their PCs, not the newer version
used for evaluation.

We looked at Office 2003, but could NOT justify replacing a major
productivity suite that cost our local county government a considerable
amount for nearly 250 user licenses just a year before, even with the
generous discount Microsoft allowed for government use. With only 90,000
residents in our entire county, Office XP (2002 version) will have to last us
for at LEAST six more years.


So you have what you want. Problem solved. Thanks for an informative post
about the remaining Easter occurrences. It came in handy.

Now I have a good OUTLOOK.HOL file going until the year 2010. However, each
user is now going to have to manually update their own Office XP Outlook
calendar by replacing their file with the new one, which I located on a
shared network drive.

I'll put out a detailed memo on how to do this, but Brian, most of these
users know little more than pushing the "ON" button and moving the mouse.
Many do not even relealize they can hit the [ENTRY] key instead of scrolling
the mouse over the "OK" button... so I expect a LOT of helpdesk calls on this
one. And since our IT Department is a staff of ONE, I'll have to go out and
do this on every machine for users who don't know what a "file" is or how to
copy one.

Wish I knew more about VB so I could write a little app that would do this
for me, and this might be an excellent project for learning about the use of
VB in the Office Suite, but I'm busy trying to repair my Compaq servers that
are busted by a Microsoft Security Patch while trying to upgrade them to
Windows 2000 Sp4 in anticipation of the Windows 2003 Server upgrade I have
planned for the Presidents Day weekend. Can't get them to start Network
Connection Services now, even though they're functioning normally on the LAN.
And without Network Connection Services running, trying to uninstall SP4 or
any of the Security Patches just hangs. So I'm in a "Catch 22" loop. Can't
install, and Uninstall.

Well, thanks for your comments, and have a great day.

Jon

2006 Holidays?
 

CourtMCSE wrote:

I'll put out a detailed memo on how to do this, but Brian, most of
these users know little more than pushing the "ON" button and moving
the mouse. Many do not even relealize they can hit the [ENTRY] key
instead of scrolling the mouse over the "OK" button... so I expect a
LOT of helpdesk calls on this one. And since our IT Department is a
staff of ONE, I'll have to go out and do this on every machine for
users who don't know what a "file" is or how to copy one.

Had this been evident from the beginning, I might not have been quite so
cavalier by saying, "problem solved." I'm part of an IT staff that cares
for thousands and we've had to go to each PC to make some global changes as
well. It's, well, "fun."
--
Brian Tillman