Exchange 2007 problems with calendar updates
Hi,
We have 3 offices (one in Europe, one in the east coast, and one in the west coast). Each of the offices has its own Exchange server database (so that mailboxes for the different staff members are stored in the Exchange DB in that particular office's
server/site). We have an Exchange 2010 server in our west coast office, and Exchange 2007 at the European and East coast offices.
The problem we are seeing is that staff members in the east coast will set up appointments that make into the calendars of the staff members out there no problem but if there is a change to the meeting time, the meetings are not getting updated
on the invittees calendars leading to a lot of confusion. Users also log into their accounts via the web client and the meetings do not have the updated time in there either...
This is stomping me because the staff members are all in the same site so it is not a problem with inter-site synching...
Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone have any tips or suggestions on how to fix it??? Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
AllieTS_IT
September 2nd, 2011 2:56pm
If they're proposing meetings or changing appointments, the changes are sent to attendees by messages. To properly diagnose this issue, find out the exact sequence of steps the users are performing to make this fail. It's likely that they're
doing something in a nonstandard fashion.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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September 2nd, 2011 6:34pm
Hi Ed,
Thanks for the quick response! I will email the users but probably won't hear back until after the holiday! I will let you know what I find out!
Thanks,
AllieTS_IT
September 2nd, 2011 8:30pm
Hi Ts_IT,
Hope more information from you, then we could narrow down the issue.
Any mobile devices used to connect to the mailbox, it also could cause the calendar issue.
Reards!
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September 5th, 2011 5:19am
Hi Gavin,
Yes, Android and iphones do synch calendars with Exchange. We have the same type of setup in our California office (which is a bigger office and there are more mobile devices connecting to Exchange and yet no one has seem the same problem)...
I am just waiting for a message from one of the users that is experiencing the problem with the exact steps.
AllieTS_IT
September 7th, 2011 2:08pm
Ok. i got a reply from one of the users that made a change to a meeting and the meeting change did not show up on another user's calendar. Steps to create meeting:
She clicked on New Meeting Request, gave it a subject, clicked on Scheduling assistant, invited other staff members, set up recurrence interval and clicked on send Invitation. To make a date/time change, she reopened the series, clicked on the recurrance
interval, changed the date/time and sent out an updated invitation.
The person whose calendar did not get changed, opened up the new invitation and clicked on accept. Even after that,the meeting still shows up with the old date on that person's calendar (even in OWA). This person can't move the meeting since
he is not the organizer (which is corract).
The second time this happened, was when the subject of the meeting got changed (words were added) by the organizer. The invitees get an updated invitation, click on accept but the new changes are actually never made in the invitee's calendars..
I was on a remote session with the user and watched her create meetings and nothing called my attention in terms of it being incorrect. I also got some screenshots that the user took when she was making a change to a meeting and it all seems like she
did it the right way...
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September 7th, 2011 7:09pm
Hi TS_IT,
Could you please make some tests by yourself, sometimes the client maybe missed some operations, and they did not realize it.
Such as,
1. accept the meeting update through OWA
2. use other mailbox make some tests
3. remove the mobile devices and then make some tests
If the issue still exists, please enalbe the ouglook troubleshooting log. I would suggest you could open a ticket from MS, because the logs need some MS internal tool to analyze it.
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September 9th, 2011 5:41am
That's going to be a very hard thing to diagnose or solve here. Some advice I have for you is to record the version of Outlook everyone is using, whether there are multiple clients attached to the mailbox simultaneously, and ensure
that there are no mobile devices involved in the picture. I've seen numerous problems with calendaring when users have a variety of clients (especially old versions of Macs) and various mobile devices.
In order to produce a good problem statement, I encourage you to try to narrow down the issue to specific Outlook or other client versions and the specific versions of any mobile devices that might be connected to the mailbox.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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September 9th, 2011 2:55pm
Hi TS_IT,
Any update for your issue?
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September 12th, 2011 9:46pm
Hi Gavin and Ed,
The issue is still happening...
However I did narrow it down to 3 users (maybe others are not complaining about it). Two of them are using Outlook 2010 and one is using Outlook 2007. All 3 have Droid phones and use corporate synch to get emails on the phone. One thing
is peculiar though. When an appointment gets changed by a user, it does not show up in the other attendees calendars as changed even though they accept the new invite (even when using OWA instead of the Outlook client). Let me know if
you guys have any other ideas...
Thanks again,
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September 14th, 2011 11:52am
Hi TS_IT
How about to move the mailbox that have calendar item update issue to other database, and then make some tests.
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September 15th, 2011 3:07am
Hi Gavin,
the users having the problem were in a different database before and the problem was present then too.
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September 16th, 2011 5:11pm
Hi TS_IT,
Could you please make a test after removing the mobile devices?
Or, how about other mailboxes, If other mailboxes have no the issue, I would create a new mailbox and move the items into the new mailbox for the users.
Please also update the mobile devices and exchange 2007 with latest update.
What do you mean "When an appointment gets changed by a user, it does not show up in the other attendees calendars as changed even though they accept the new invite ".
If the organizer want to update the appointment, a update message would need to send to all the attendees, and all the attendees accept the update message, but without updaing the item in the calendar, right?
In my opinion, it maybe caused the Mobile Devices, if so, need to retrieve more log, please open a ticket from MS to cnfirm it.
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September 19th, 2011 2:10am
Hi Ts_IT,
Any update for your issue?
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September 22nd, 2011 10:55pm