Outlook Reminders

[John McC]

Hi Everyone,
Hope this question has not been answered before.

I have transfered all my business data from SBS 2000 to SBS 2003. I created
all the user accounts from scratch on the new server using the same
usernames as the old server. I then restored all their email to Exchange
2003 using Veritas Backup Exec 10.1 Ever since then no reminders have came
up in Outlook on any PC when the user logs in and runs Outlook. We run
various version of Outlook (2000 / 2002 / 2003) all with the same problem.
When I log in via Outlook web access the reminders appear so I suspect it is
a Outlook thing.

To try and fix this I have run Outlook with the cleanfreebusy and
cleanreminders switches with no joy. I have also checked in Outlook that
the display reminders is active.

Has anyone got any other suggestions on how I can get the reminders to popup
in the morning?

Thanks for any help / advice

John

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

is the exchange server their default delivery location?

 

[John McC]

Hi Diane,
Thanks for the reply. Yes exchange is the default delivery location. Very
few of the users use local PST files to archive email locally.

John

 

[John McC]

Hi Diane,
Thanks for the reply. Yes exchange is the default delivery location. Very
few of the users use local PST files to archive email locally.

John

 

[Anders Norberg]

Hi!

We have the same type of problem, when you set a rimnder with a flag on your
mail, the reminder does not appear if you move the mail out of the Inbox. I
seems that Microft has failed to make this work properly in OL 2003.

Anders Norberg

"John McC" skrev:

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Try using the /resetfolders switch to start Outlook. That should restore the
default Reminders folder.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

No version of Outlook will fire reminders natively from any folder other
than Inbox, Calendar, Tasks or Contacts until Outlook 2007.

 

[John McC]

Hi,
Thanks everyone for your replies. I have managed to work out a solution.
Cached exchange mode was not enabled on the clients which already had
Outlook 2003 installed. Enabling that worked.

I then installed Outlook 2003 on all the other clients from Small Business
Server which worked for everyone else. As a bonus I now only have to
support 1 version of Outlook!!!

Thanks everyone
John