Outlook 2003 meeting request

[Rachel]

We have a few people running Office 2003, using Outlook
2003. Most of the other users are on Office 2000/Outlook
2000. We have come across an issue when creating meeting
requests in Outlook 2003 for Outlook 2000 users. When
the meeting request is sent from Outlook 2003 and
received by Outlook 2000, the message is "garbage" - it
is not in a meeting request format that can be
accepted/declined. Here is what the appt looks like when
it is received:

Return-Path: <[email protected]>
Delivered-To: hbr-inc.com%[email protected]
Received: (cpmta 14521 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2004
12:45:38 -0700
Received: from 63.107.135.36 (HELO Rchipman1)
by smtp.hbr-inc.com (209.228.35.119) with SMTP; 1 Jul
2004 12:45:38 -0700
X-Sent: 1 Jul 2004 19:45:38 GMT
From: "Rachel L. Chipman" <[email protected]>
To: "Ellen Sieggreen" <[email protected]>
Subject: Test appt
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:42:49 -0400
Organization: Healthcare Business Resources, Inc.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
Thread-Index: AcRfo5ZHildvmQvZQoaW38qKRNo0cw==
Status: U
X-UIDL: QORp49HkI3c4wQE

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-
PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]
DTSTART:20040702T120000Z
DTEND:20040702T123000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000000C4340F825FC4
010000000000000000100
00000D8326DD4B3943547B1C81A7BD735B47C
DTSTAMP:20040701T194247Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Friday\, July 02\, 2004 8:00 AM-8:30 AM
(GMT-05:00)
Eastern Time (US & Canada).\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n\n
SUMMARY:Test appt
PRIORITY:5
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
CLASSUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I have not
found anything on MS Knowledge Base.

Thank you !!

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That's not garbage at all. It's a perfectly valid iCalendar meeting request.
The problem is one of an iCal incompatibility in Outlook 2000. The quick
solution is for the Outlook 2003 users to remove any reminder before sending
a meeting request. The longterm solution is to contact Microsoft Support to
request the Outlook 2000 iCalendar hotfix and install it on all Outlook 2000
machines; there should be no charge for the support call since you're
requesting a fix for a known bug.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers