Outlook 2003 invites not recognised by Outlook 2000

[Robert O'Connell]

Hi,
A client of mine has Outlook 2003 SBE and is trying to send meeting invites
to other users. These other users have outlook 2002 and 2000. The invites
show up OK in the 2002 (XP) versions but they show up as an email in Outlook
2000, there is no accept / decline buttons.
I have done a full reinstall of the 2003 SBE and used the standard install
options, but I still have the problem.
Am I missing an update for the 2000 versions or something?

 

[DFournier]

Hi,
A client of mine has Outlook 2003 SBE and is trying to send meetin
invites
to other users. These other users have outlook 2002 and 2000. Th
invites
show up OK in the 2002 (XP) versions but they show up as an email i
Outlook
2000, there is no accept / decline buttons.
I have done a full reinstall of the 2003 SBE and used the standar
install
options, but I still have the problem.
Am I missing an update for the 2000 versions or something?

Hi,
This is a bug with Outlook 2000. (I do not understand why this bug ha
not been fixed after tree service pack emission for Office-2000)

Actually, Outlook uses a trigger information to generate warning som
time preceding the meeting: "TRIGGERT5M". This trigger means that
want to be reminded 5 minutes before the meeting, a trigger like
"TRIGGERT5M" will mean that I want to be reminded 5 minutes after th
begin of the meting. Outlook 2000 don't recognise the "-" preceding th
trigger information, so it will treat the meeting as an ordinary mail.

A turnaround can be done by omitting the Trigger information whe
scheduling a meeting. Just remove the checkmark on the Reminde
checkbox before sending the meeting request to your attendees. Eac
attendee can manually enable the reminder after receiving the meeting.

I think this may solve your problem