Re: Random Appointments created in Exchange

From: Dave Nickason [SBS MVP] (gwdibble_at_NOSPAM.frontiernet.net)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:22:56 -0400

I'm not sure if this answers your question or not. If you have an Outlook
Contact and you enter a birthday or anniversary on the Details page, Outlook
automatically creates a recurring appointment for the event(s) on the user's
calendar. Removing the birthday or anniversary, or even deleting the
Contact entirely, will not remove the recurring appointments from the
calendar. AFAIK, the only way to remove it from the calendar is to manually
delete the entries.

The Activities tab in a Contact will show any Outlook items for that contact
(e-mails, appointments, etc.) anywhere in the user's mailbox, depending on
your choice in the Show drop-down list. So you could be seeing all kinds of
items relating to that contact, or other contacts linked on the front page,
but you shouldn't see items for completely unrelated contacts.

"news.microsoft.com" <jmollhagen@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in message
news:uT6Zgt$cEHA.1764@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I have a customer with SBS 2003. We have now had this problem with three
> different mailboxes. What happens is on a random date, recurring events
> for
> birthdays and anniversaries for random contacts start showing up in the
> calendar. If I go to one of these contacts and select the activities tab,
> then all of these random events will show up regardless of which contact
> they belong to. I have verified that these contacts were never entered
> with
> birthdays and anniversaries so I know that these events are showing up
> seemingly spontaneously. It seems apparent that we have some sort of
> database issue but I am not sure what the proper steps are to correct the
> problems or if there are other possible causes. Any ideas out there?
>
> Joel Mollhagen
> Idaho Business Technology
> jmollhagen at idahobustech.com
>
>

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