Meeting Request Compatibility: Outlook 2003 vs 2000

I

Ian

Hi,

I am hoping someone has dealt with this one already and might have an easy
solution for me. I have checked the Microsoft Support KB and found nothing
relevant there.

I am using Office 2003, recently upgraded from Office 2000. My
correspondent is still on Office 2000.

When I create a meeting in Outlook Calendar and send a Meeting Request to my
correspondent (i.e. created in Outlook 2003 and sent to Outlook 2000), the
request is received as a plain e-mail message (see below) rather than being
interpreted by Outlook 2000 as a meeting request and handled appropriately.

This seems like a backward compatibility issue. Is there anyway to tweak
Outlook 2003 to send Outlook 2000 compatible meeting requests, or to add
compatibility to Outlook 2000 to handle Outlook 2003 meeting requests?

Excerpt of Meeting Request (received as e-mail message):

---begin snip---
BEGIN:VCALENDAR

PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:XXXXXXXXXXX

ORGANIZER:MAILTO:XXXXXXXXXXX

DTSTART:20040608T153000Z

DTEND:20040608T200000Z

LOCATION:XXXXXXXXXXX

TRANSP:OPAQUE

SEQUENCE:1

UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000F0C8A807A549C4010000000000000000
100

00000D32FDD62CE5FE244B721E4AC536E51B9

DTSTAMP:20040604T184608Z

DESCRIPTION:When: June 8\, 2004 9:30 AM-2:00 PM (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time

(US & Canada).\nWhere: XXXXXXXXXX\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n

SUMMARY:Updated: Computer Setup etc.

PRIORITY:5

X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1

CLASS:pUBLIC

BEGIN:VALARM

TRIGGER:pT1440M

ACTION:DISPLAY

DESCRIPTION:Reminder

END:VALARM

END:VEVENT

END:VCALENDAR

---end snip---

NB
Prior to upgrading, Outlook 2000 to Outlook 2000 meeting requests worked for
me.
Subsequent to upgrading, Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2003 meeting requests work
fine for me.

Thanks in advance for any help given.

Ian
 
S

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

Don't include a reminder in the request you send from Outlook 2003. There's
also a hotfix for Outlook 2000 -- search the KB for "vCalendar
compatibility."
 

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