Calendar Appointments coming through as text

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Steve Ferris

We are using Outlook 2003 on Exchange 5.5 and every now and then recieve an
external calendar appointment as just text and not as appointment request.
Can anyone shed light on this for me.

Thanks


BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;CN="NameA";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:[email protected]
m
ATTENDEE;CN="'NameB'";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:[email protected]
CLASS:pUBLIC
CREATED:20081130T133127Z
DESCRIPTION:When: 17 December 2008 19:15-22:15 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time :
Dublin\, Edinburgh\, Lisbon\, London.\nWhere: Fishworks\, Street1 et\,
Town\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n
DTEND:20081217T221500Z DTSTAMP:20081130T133127Z DTSTART:20081217T191500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20081130T133127Z LOCATION:Restaurant\,Address1\,Town
ORGANIZER;CN="NameC":mailto:[email protected]
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-gb:Targets
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000A0988C5A7A45C901000000000000000
010000000C87D3577C25165428D188E3DFB0843E5
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//E
N">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server ve
rsion 08.00.0681.000">\n<TITLE></TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n<!-- Converted f
rom text/rtf format -->\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calib
ri">When: 17 December 2008 19:15-22:15 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin\
, Edinburgh\, Lisbon\, London.</FONT></SPAN></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG=
"en-gb"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Where:
Restaurant\,Address1\,Town</FONT></SPAN></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN
LANG="en-gb"><F
ONT FACE="Calibri">*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*</FONT></SPAN></P>\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SP
AN LANG="en-gb"></SPAN></P>\n\n</BODY>\n</HTML>
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:TENTATIVE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-ALLOWEXTERNCHECK:TRUE
X-MS-OLK-APPTSEQTIME:20081130T133120Z
X-MS-OLK-AUTOSTARTCHECK:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0
X-MS-OLK-SENDER;CN="NameC":mailto:[email protected] END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR
 
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Roady [MVP]

IIRC Exchange 5.5 doesn't support the iCAL format.
You could ask the sender to resend the request in TNEF format and then it
should arrive correctly.

Note that Exchange 5.5 is no longer supported. You might want to consider
upgrading that server.
 
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Steve Ferris

Roady

Many thanks for the reply. We are shortly going to be upgrading to Exhange
2007 so this should hopefully avoid these kinds of issues.

Regards

Steve
 

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