Recipients receive forwarded "message" instead of meeting request

[SheriCrane]

Can somebody help me?

When sending Meeting Requests from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2000 users, the
Outlook 2000 users receive a "forwarded" mail with none of the Calendar-based
features. The message includes a very clear "script" of what was supposed to
happen -- first, we have all the server transfer information, then, it looks
like this:

Subject: Regular Staff Meeting
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:56:54 -0400
Organization: SaraCare
Message-ID: <000b01c6d75d$fffb7dc0$6501a8c0@dell918161e6f5>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962
Importance: Normal
X-Nonspam: IP whitelist 64.202.165.12

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]
DTSTART:20060918T123000Z
DTEND:20060918T133000Z
LOCATION:Suite C
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000040F2F6773CD7C6010000000000000000100
00000805853D66F34AB4ABD93DF48C74EE5D3
DTSTAMP:20060913T175653Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\, September 18\, 2006 8:30 AM-9:30 AM (GMT-05:00)
Eastern Time (US & Canada).\nWhere: Suite
C\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\nHello.\n\nWe will now hold a regular weekly
staff meeting each Monday from 8:30 - 9:30\, beginning next week. Phones
will be left unanswered during this time.\n\nThis will be a structured
meeting and will usually follow the below general agenda:\n\n1) Urgent
Items\n2) Regular Reporting\n3) Items requiring follow up from last
meeting\n4) New Items from last meeting\n5) Ideas\, Submissions\, and
Assignments for next meeting\n\nOur first agenda will be presented in a
separate mail.\n\n\nKind Regards\,\n\nSheri\n
SUMMARY:Regular Staff Meeting
PRIORITY:5
CLASSUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

This almost seems like a security issue -- where MS is treating the meeting
request as suspect and not running the macro. Am I close to guessing?

Thanks to all!

Sheri

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

No cigar! It is a bug in Microsoft Outlook 2000 that Microsoft has a hotfix
for. A temporary workaround is to remove the reminder from the Outlook 2002
meeting request and it should go through fine.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Sorry - I forgot to include the KB article with the hotfix:

You cannot open an iCalendar Format (*.ics) file in Outlook 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823199/

 

[SM]

Your help is appreicatedm howeverthere is no link to download the hotfix.
Where can we get the hotfix from?

Regards,

S

Sorry - I forgot to include the KB article with the hotfix:

You cannot open an iCalendar Format (*.ics) file in Outlook 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/823199/

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook}
Please post all followup questions to the newsgroups only to keep the
discussion intact.

Can somebody help me?

When sending Meeting Requests from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2000 users, the
Outlook 2000 users receive a "forwarded" mail with none of the Calendar-based
features. The message includes a very clear "script" of what was supposed to
happen -- first, we have all the server transfer information, then, it looks
like this:

Subject: Regular Staff Meeting
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:56:54 -0400
Organization: SaraCare
Message-ID: <000b01c6d75d$fffb7dc0$6501a8c0@dell918161e6f5>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962
Importance: Normal
X-Nonspam: IP whitelist 64.202.165.12

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:[email protected]
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:[email protected]
DTSTART:20060918T123000Z
DTEND:20060918T133000Z
LOCATION:Suite C
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000040F2F6773CD7C6010000000000000000100
00000805853D66F34AB4ABD93DF48C74EE5D3
DTSTAMP:20060913T175653Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Monday\, September 18\, 2006 8:30 AM-9:30 AM (GMT-05:00)
Eastern Time (US & Canada).\nWhere: Suite
C\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\nHello.\n\nWe will now hold a regular weekly
staff meeting each Monday from 8:30 - 9:30\, beginning next week. Phones
will be left unanswered during this time.\n\nThis will be a structured
meeting and will usually follow the below general agenda:\n\n1) Urgent
Items\n2) Regular Reporting\n3) Items requiring follow up from last
meeting\n4) New Items from last meeting\n5) Ideas\, Submissions\, and
Assignments for next meeting\n\nOur first agenda will be presented in a
separate mail.\n\n\nKind Regards\,\n\nSheri\n
SUMMARY:Regular Staff Meeting
PRIORITY:5
CLASSUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGERT15M
ACTIONISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

This almost seems like a security issue -- where MS is treating the meeting
request as suspect and not running the macro. Am I close to guessing?

Thanks to all!

Sheri

 

[Brian Tillman]

Your help is appreicatedm howeverthere is no link to download the
hotfix. Where can we get the hotfix from?

Follow the instructions in the article. When you call MS with the article
number, they'll verify the issue and send you the link for the hotfix. They
will not charge you for the call.