how to refresh birthday appointments

[Gizzzo]

for reasons i'm still investigating, something happened to my
birthdays where even when in the contact a birthday is listed as
10/28, the appointment is scheduled in 1/28.

this is what i did, i erased all birthday appointments in calendar.

my question is, does outlook automatically regenerate the birthdays
based on the birthday field in contacts?

If not, how can we force regen?

thanks for the help.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

for reasons i'm still investigating, something happened to my
birthdays where even when in the contact a birthday is listed as
10/28, the appointment is scheduled in 1/28.

this is what i did, i erased all birthday appointments in calendar.

my question is, does outlook automatically regenerate the birthdays
based on the birthday field in contacts?

Yes, it does, if you update something in the contact record that causes it
to be rewritten.

If not, how can we force regen?

I've seen mention of a tool that will do that, but I can't find the
reference any more. Perhaps someone else will know.

 

[Gizzzo]

Thanks for the reply but I'm not about to update each of the contacts
so that outlook can regenerate the birthday appointments in calendar.
is there a way or a tool to force regenaration?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks for the reply but I'm not about to update each of the contacts
so that outlook can regenerate the birthday appointments in calendar.
is there a way or a tool to force regenaration?

See if something here helps: http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp

 

[Gizzzo]

See if something here helps:http://www.slipstick.com/addins/contacts.asp

I wanted to resolve it first without having to resort to 3rd party
apps.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I wanted to resolve it first without having to resort to 3rd party
apps.

Your exact words were "is there a tool...". I pointed you to possible tools.
If Outlook had a bult-in way to do it, I would have told you about it.

 

[srehbach]

Am Donnerstag, 26. März 2009 11:29:29 UTC+1 schrieb Gizzzo:

I wanted to resolve it first without having to resort to 3rd party
apps.

Came across this looking for the solution and thought it would be worthwhile to note it despite the thread being older for other people passing by.

There is an easy and native way to do this without any tools:

- Create a new, empty contacts folder in a separate .pst file (e. g. Archive, which is already there by default). Then move all your contacts into that archive.pst file, if there is no contacts folder for it yet, you need to create one (it needs to be of the type "for contact items").
- Close the archive.pst file so that Outlook does not see the contacts anymore.
- Go to your calendar, change to list view, enter "Birthday" into the search box and select all items under "yearly recurrence" and delete them (they were the old birthdays which Outlook kept but are not linked to contacts anymore).
- Now open the .pst file again (e. g. archive.pst) and move all contacts back into your regular contacts folder.
- Outlook will now ask you if it should create a birthday appointment for each of the contacts, which - if you have that many contacts - will require some hundred "yes" clicks.... however all birthdays are then neatly and correctly entered into your calendar again.

Great if e. g. a time zone change has messed up your birthday appointments (that was the reason on mine)!