Outlook only syncs TWO MONTHS past appointments

[WCH]

I use Outlook for contacts, calendar, tasks and notes. Not for email. I
need to move my data among four different PCs and it MUST be current and
accurate on my PDA (iPaq 3715, PPC2002SE).

What I'd like to do is keep my PDA current and just sync it (via
ActiveSync 3.8) to update various instances of Outlook. When I get to
an outdated Outlook I rename Outlook.pst, create a new (blank, empty)
Outlook.pst file and do a sync.

This works fine with ONE EXCEPTION. Outlook syncs all contacts, notes
and tasks but ONLY SYNCS TWO MONTHS' OF PAST APPOINTMENTS. Why??? I
turned off Auto-Archiving, I made sure that the Calendar Sync in
ActiveSync is set to sync ALL appointments, but I still can't get
Outlook to sync all my appointments, including ALL past appointments (I
use these for reference records).

I want Outlook to sync, store and show ALL my appointments, including
all PAST appointments. How can I make this happen?
WC

 

[Brian Tillman]

This works fine with ONE EXCEPTION. Outlook syncs all contacts, notes
and tasks but ONLY SYNCS TWO MONTHS' OF PAST APPOINTMENTS. Why???

Because that's what you told ActiveSync to do when you created the
partnership. Open ActiveSync, click Options, select Calendar, click
Settings, and select the "Synchronize all appointments" radio button.

ActiveSync questions belong in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync newsgroup,
not here.

 

[WCH]

Because that's what you told ActiveSync to do when you created the
partnership. Open ActiveSync, click Options, select Calendar, click
Settings, and select the "Synchronize all appointments" radio button.

ActiveSync questions belong in
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync
newsgroup, not here.

As I noted in my original post, I HAVE set the Calendar sync setting in
ActiveSync to "Synchronize all appointments). I just confirmed once
again that the ActiveSync calendar setting is STILL "all appts". Thanks
for the suggestion anyway. And I posted to an Outlook NG because I can't
find any settings in ActiveSync which could account for this behavior
(having thoroughly examined every such setting and making changes that
should cause ALL appts to sync). Therefore, I believe this is an
OUTLOOK issue.

 

[Brian Tillman]

As I noted in my original post, I HAVE set the Calendar sync setting
in ActiveSync to "Synchronize all appointments).

I see that you did.

I just confirmed once
again that the ActiveSync calendar setting is STILL "all appts". Thanks
for the suggestion anyway. And I posted to an Outlook NG
because I can't find any settings in ActiveSync which could account
for this behavior (having thoroughly examined every such setting and
making changes that should cause ALL appts to sync). Therefore, I
believe this is an OUTLOOK issue.

The problem may be with how you manipulate your PST. Never rename a PST
that is currently in a mail profile. You must create the new PST first,
adding it to the profile, make it your delivery location, then rtemove the
old PST from the profile. Anything else can corrupt the profile and lead to
any number of anomalous behaviors.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook has no native synching abilities - it derives all synchronization settings from the software that provides this ability.

Bottom line - not an Outlook issue.


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After furious head scratching, WCH asked:

| Brian Tillman wrote:
||
||| This works fine with ONE EXCEPTION. Outlook syncs all contacts,
||| notes and tasks but ONLY SYNCS TWO MONTHS' OF PAST APPOINTMENTS.
||| Why???
||
|| Because that's what you told ActiveSync to do when you created the
|| partnership. Open ActiveSync, click Options, select Calendar, click
|| Settings, and select the "Synchronize all appointments" radio button.
||
|| ActiveSync questions belong in
|| news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pocketpc.activesync
|| newsgroup, not here.
|
| As I noted in my original post, I HAVE set the Calendar sync setting
| in ActiveSync to "Synchronize all appointments). I just confirmed once
| again that the ActiveSync calendar setting is STILL "all appts".
| Thanks for the suggestion anyway. And I posted to an Outlook NG
| because I can't find any settings in ActiveSync which could account
| for this behavior (having thoroughly examined every such setting and
| making changes that should cause ALL appts to sync). Therefore, I
| believe this is an OUTLOOK issue.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I believe that all is just all *upcoming* appointments. Old ones are limited
to 2 months. Had you asked about this in the activesync newsgroup Brian
pointed you to, they would have told you right off the bat if you can sync
all old appointments or are limited to 2 months back.