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How to avoid sending an extra meeting request when creating meeting in someone's calendar.

Recurring appointments are a problem for many users: you can't end a series without losing exceptions and no one can cancel meetings created by users who no longer have a mailbox. For this reason, we always recommend using a recurrence period of no more than a year.

We've had a lot of people complaining that a range of old appointments are missing from the calendar. For example, in November they notice appointments from July and earlier are still in the calendar but appointments in August and September are missing. When all old appointments go missing AutoArchive is the most likely culprit, but  

We're seeing complaints that Outlook automatically sends meeting updates to the attendees several times a day. When users delete the responses from their inbox it triggers another update to attendees. The good news: it’s not user error. The bad news: it appears to be a problem only for people who sync iPhones with Exchange. The  

Outlook includes a list of holidays you can add to your calendar. We have links to updated (including an updated list with holidays beyond 2012) and corrected holidays for all versions of Outlook, along with instructions to make your own company holiday lists.

How to publish and use your Free/Busy information in Outlook.

Outlook 2007: All attendees are included on the To line when someone forwards a meeting request. Over the last several months I've seen a lot of reports about Outlook including the original invitees in the To field when forwarding meeting requests. Symptom: The organization has a Collaboration Data Objects (CDO) 1.21 application for Microsoft Exchange  

How to create a custom view to show only birthdays (and anniversaries) on your calendar for viewing or printing.

This form shows that it is possible to display a person's current age on the calendar. Sample Age on Birthday form The idea (and basic instructions) for this method came from ghumdinger in his (her?) post in our Outlook Forums: Displaying value of task subject field as values from two custom fields A frequent request  

Microsoft Outlook uses the Windows "long" date format to control some date formatting in the Calendar and Tasks. When the date format used in Outlook is not the desired date format, you can change it in the Control Panel, Regional settings. If the screen width is too small to fit the date format, Outlook drops