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Microsoft Outlook Calendar Issues

On this page you'll find links to pages within Slipstick, links to Microsoft Knowledge base articles, and to other sites with information to help you manage your Outlook calendar.

Calendar Index

This is a list of all pages in the Calendar section of Slipstick.com. Newest pages are listed at the top.

Pick A Meeting Request
Outlook turns all Meetings into Recurring Meetings
All Day Events Span Two Days
Outlook, Appointments and Time Zones
Daylight Saving Time Updates
View a two week calendar
Outlook 2007: Month Calendar Printing
To Cc or Bcc a meeting notice in Microsoft Outlook
To clear the Location drop-down list on Microsoft Outlook appointments
Add color coding to Calendar items
Company Events Calendar
To display weekday names in a Calendar weekly view in Microsoft Outlook
Outlook 2003 Calendar Printing Bug
To show birthdays for a particular month in Microsoft Outlook
Publishing Free/Busy Information
Remove duplicate holidays from the Calendar
Microsoft Outlook Holiday Issues
To avoid sending an extra meeting request in Microsoft Outlook
To make "no reminder" the default for new appointments
Publishing Outlook Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet
Meeting requests and appointments are off by one hour
Maintaining a Group Calendar in Outlook without Exchange
Group Calendar - Live Calendar Tools
Other Group Calendar Tools
Scheduling Resources for Microsoft Outlook
To show separate business and personal calendars in Microsoft Outlook
Outlook 2000: Dates are wrong when you publish a web calendar
Outlook displays last month, not today.
This month begins with the last week of last month.

Meetings

Calendar Problems with Outlook

Scheduling Resources for Microsoft Outlook (with Exchange Server)

To Cc or Bcc a meeting notice

To avoid sending an extra meeting request

XCLN: Free and Busy Information Not Updated When Working Offline

Cancel an Outlook 97, 98 or 2000 Meeting if You Are an Attendee

XCLN Private Appointments Are Not Forwarded to Delegate

XADM Cannot Modify or Cancel a Meeting Request That Originated from a Deleted User's Account

XCLN: Meeting Request Generates Non-Delivery Report for a Recipient Not Invited to Meeting

How to migrate calendar meetings without losing the Option "Send Update"

OL Meetings Placed in an Owner's Calendar by a Delegate Do Not Display Free-Busy Information for Additional Meeting Attendees

XCLN Free and Busy Information Is Published Incorrectly for One User

Outlook 2002:

OL2002 Outlook Does Not Import Meeting Attendees from Certain File Types

OFFXP: Running Outlook 2002 with the "/cleanfreebusy" Switch Resets the Resource Scheduling and Delegate Settings

OL2002 Calendar Problems with Outlook 2002

OL2002 Only Two Months of Outlook 98 Free and Busy Data Appear When Outlook 2002 Delegate Publishes

OL2002 Outlook Does Not Import Meeting Attendees from Certain File Types

OL2002 Private Meeting Requests Are Not Sent to Delegate Even Though Delegate Can See Private Items

Outlook 2002 Post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package September 12, 2003 -- Resolves a problem with tracking meeting attendance responses.

XCCC Meeting Is Removed from the Calendar If You Delete a Meeting Request from the Inbox by Using OWA

OL2002 Error Message You Cannot Schedule a Meeting with Resource Name Because You Do Not Have the Appropriate Permissions

Outlook 2000:

OL2000 Cannot Open iCalendar Format (.ics) File -- hotfix available

OL2000 Last Month of Other Persons Published Free-Busy Information Is Missing -- hotfix available

OL2000 How to Control the Unable to Update Public Free-Busy Data Dialog Box - hotfix available

OL2000 Errors When You Open Meeting Update That Contains Attachments - hotfix available

XCLN How to Reinstate the Successful Booking Dialog Box

OL2000 (CW) You Can Publish Your Free-Busy Times for up to One Calendar Year

OL2000 (CW) Conditions That Affect Display of Free-Busy Time

OL2000 How to Suppress Replies in a Meeting Request

OL2000 (CW) Meeting Requests Are Saved to the Wrong Personal Calendar

OL2000 You Cannot View Calendar Working Hours from Another Client

OL2000 The Delegate Copy of a Meeting Request Is Sent to the Deleted Items Folder

OL2000 Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2002 iCalendar Interoperability Problems

OL2000 (CW) Conditions That Affect Display of Free-Busy Time

OL2000: Internet Free-Busy Information Not Updated)

XCLN Error Message An Error Occurred Publishing Your Internet Free-Busy Data...

Outlook 98:

OL98 Owner Is Not Notified When a Delegate Declines a Meeting Request

Views

To show separate business and personal calendars

To display weekday names in a Calendar weekly view

To add color coding to Calendar items

To show birthdays for a particular month

OL2000: Wrong Day Is Selected in Monthly View

OL2000 How to Set the Calendar Hourly Interval for Daily View

OL97 Wrong Day Is Highlighted in Monthly View

Holidays

Microsoft Outlook Holiday Issues

To remove duplicate holidays from the Calendar folder

Transmit Holidays Form

Why does Outlook put some holidays on the wrong date?

Limited Holidays for Outlook 98 Calendar

Add a Custom Category to the Outlook 97-98-2000 Add Holiday List

Errors in Outlook 2002 imported holidays:

OL2002 Islamic Religious and National Holidays Are Incorrectly Added to the US English Calendar

OL2002 Foreign National and Religious Holidays Are Incorrectly Added in US English Outlook Calendar A - F

OL2002 Foreign National and Religious Holidays Incorrectly Added in US English Outlook Calendar G - M

OL2002 Foreign National and Religious Holidays Incorrectly Added in US English Outlook Calendar N - Z

Also see:

The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site

Sharing

Sharing Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Contacts

Maintaining a Group Calendar in Outlook

Publishing Outlook Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet

To get quick access to team calendars

Calendar Shortcut Form

OL2000: Unable to Open Secondary Calendar Folder for Another User

XCLN Outlook 2000 Delegate Calendar Permissions Unavailable After Disabling Schedule+ as Primary Calendar

OL2000 (CW) How to Determine Who Created an Appointment in a Shared Calendar

OL You Can View Private Appointments in Another User's Calendar When You Have Reviewer Permissions -- Exchange 2000 hotfix available

Using Sensitivity Levels with Appointments

Printing

Calendar Printing Tools

OL2000: How to Print Four Months of Your Calendar on One Page

OL2000 Notes Area on a Printed Calendar Does Not Contain Outlook Notes

An Outlook appointment calendar your students can take on the road

OL2000 How to Print a Calendar Without Personal Appointment Details

Other

vCal/iCal issues:

ACT! & Outlook: The Sweet Sounds of Syncing! -- how to send appointments back and forth between ACT! and Outlook

OL2000 (CW) vCalendar Import from ACT Meeting Request Fails

Scheduling Appointments on the Web

XCON Meeting Requests That Use the iCalendar Format Are Not Processed Correctly -- Exchange 2000 issue

OL2000 Cannot Open iCalendar Format (.ics) File - hotfix available

Other issues:

Meeting requests and appointments are off by one hour

To make "no reminder" the default for new appointments

To clear the Location drop-down list on Microsoft Outlook appointments

To automatically set a reminder for birthdays for new contacts (Outlook 2000 VBA code sample)

OL2000 How to Reset the Location Field List for Appointment Items or Meeting Requests

OL2000 Changing the Time Zone Without Changing Appointment Times

How to Change the Outlook 2000 time zone without changing appointment times

OL2000: Incorrect Export of Recurring Weekday Appointments

OL2000: How to Delete All Outlook Calendar Items

OL2000 Birthday or Anniversary Spans Two Days

OL2002 Label Color of Recurring Appointments Changes Incorrectly

XCLN How to Troubleshoot Reminders and Free-Busy Issues -- If you need the Exchng32.exe client, see Exchange, Windows Messaging and Outlook Clients.

OL2002 Behavior of the 'Appointment Reminder' Check Box

XWEB An Appointment's Start Date and End Date Are Not Correct in OWA If You Copied the Appointment by Using MAPI -- fixed in Exchange 2000 SP3

OL2000 Cannot Locate the Recurrence Information... Error Message When You Open a Recurring Meeting, Appointment, or Event - hotfix available to resolve compatibility issue with Outlook 2002's color labels

Outlook, Appointments and Time Zones - explains how time zones affects appointments

Limitations

Outlook does not include any kind of year planner beyond what you see in the normal Day/Week/Month view. If you need to print out the full calendar for a year and don't like the way Outlook does it, you might try one of the Word templates listed at Calendar Tools.

You cannot print detailed notes from your appointments on a Day/Week/Month view printout. The Include: Notes area setting in the Page Setup dialog for different print styles refers to a blank area on the printout for handwritten notes. It is not the same as the notes printout in Schedule+ (which included all appointment notes). If you want a detailed printout of your appointments with notes, use the Calendar Details print style.

Some other known problems:

OL2002: Exception to High Priority Recurring Meeting Normal

XADM Table View in Calendar Produces Memory Error -- fixed in Exchange 2000 SP2

XCON Meeting Requests That Use the iCalendar Format Are Not Processed Correctly -- Exchange 2000 issue