Syncing Contacts w/ Outlook Calendar (for B-days & Anniversaries)

[Jason W.]

Outlook 2003, Windows XP

I recently moved my outlook contacts (business contacts from the standard
Contacts folder of a pst file) to my new work contacts folder (on a Microsoft
Exchange Server). My local file now has all the contacts, but the calendar
does not show any of the birthdays or anniversaries. Is there a program or
set of steps that I can execute to populate my calendar with these entries
from my contacts folder? Ideally, I would like the program to also be able
to remove any duplicates, but I am not getting my hope up.

Thanks very much for any time spent on this matter.

(Please note that I am looking for a solution to use while working in
Offline mode or on any non-MES pst file. I do not need a solution in Connect
mode or do I have administrative access to the Exchange Server directly.)

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook 2003, Windows XP

I recently moved my outlook contacts (business contacts from the
standard Contacts folder of a pst file) to my new work contacts
folder (on a Microsoft Exchange Server). My local file now has all
the contacts, but the calendar does not show any of the birthdays or
anniversaries. Is there a program or set of steps that I can execute
to populate my calendar with these entries from my contacts folder?
Ideally, I would like the program to also be able to remove any
duplicates, but I am not getting my hope up.

Didn't you post this already?

 

[Jason W.]

Brian, I might have but I didn't see it in the thread listing. So I logged
it again. I don't have visibility to the other one. I am sorry if there is
redundancy. I can only review comments on this one though. Thanks.

 

[Jason W.]

The message posted to the 8/15 thread did not work. The solution presented
earlier was as follows:
Create a temp category, select the newly imported contacts, add them to that
category. You can remove them from the category right away. The idea seems
to be that they need to be "modified and saved" after being imported for the
b'day-cal thing to happen.

It appeared to work for new items created in the folder but not the
transferred ones.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Brian, I might have but I didn't see it in the thread listing. So I
logged it again. I don't have visibility to the other one. I am
sorry if there is redundancy. I can only review comments on this one
though. Thanks.

Well, I posted a reply to your other thread.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The message posted to the 8/15 thread did not work. The solution
presented earlier was as follows:
Create a temp category, select the newly imported contacts, add them
to that category. You can remove them from the category right away.
The idea seems to be that they need to be "modified and saved" after
being imported for the b'day-cal thing to happen.

It appeared to work for new items created in the folder but not the
transferred ones.

That's one of the reasons why you never use import and export for
transferring data from one Outlook to another. Import/export loses data.

 

[Jason W.]

Any other suggestions about how to correct this problem?

 

[Brian Tillman]

Any other suggestions about how to correct this problem?

Without resaving each contact, I don't know of any way to restore the dates.
To prevent such a ting from happening in the future, opening both PSTs and
then moving or copying from the one to the other should preserve the data.