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Reminder...in 100000 weeks time??

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Wazza - 22 May 2007 23:16 GMT
Hi all
I do hope someone may have seen something like this before. I've done some
trawling through the posts and cannot find anything that looks familiar, so
if this looks like a similar problem elsewhere, I do apologise. (and beg for
a link to it)

The problem is exactly as it states above. I have a client whose reminders
have gone quite literally beserk. One appointment is scheduled to occur in
December 2007 and it's reminder is set as 15 minutes - it's reminding now?
Also, dismissing has absolutely no effect. I have done the cleanfreebusy and
cleanreminders switches to no avail.

The environment is slightly complex as we're going through a migration
currently. This client's setup is Exchange 5.5 with Outlook 2003 (and some
machines she has used could very well have 2002). Our migration is to
Exchange 2003 (using quest for migration or so I'm told) and the Exchange
server enforces the Cached Exchange Mode - so much local data eh... Our
default replication option is to "discover" a 5.5 server (an "autoprofile"
function for lack of a better description)which this user is on, so the
Cached Exchange shouldn't be enforced, however, I have uncovered policies
locally on our systems which have it enforced, so I don't currently know
quite what it's doing.

So far, I've tracked down what I believe are all the PC's the client has
used since the problem occurred (got 12 or so) and deleted the NT profile,
which should cover re-profiling outlook quite nicely. The client also has a
blackberry which could be causing a problem, but I'm not so sure (I cannot
confirm whether this appointment currently displays on the Blackberry as well)

With that, does anyone know how a calendar appointment can be quite this
persistent? The appointment described above is one of 3 that I see are quite
distant in the future - with the worst of the lot being at 100000 weeks - can
Outlook even remember that far ahead??

This is truely a unique situation I think, so absolutely any suggestions
will be observed quite seriously :)

Many thanks for your time in advance
Lincoln Ferris - 19 Jun 2007 22:52 GMT
I have had a similar problem, in that I have tried to dismiss a set of
reminders for events that occurred up to five months ago and neither the
"dismiss all" button or selecting all of the reminders and hitting the delete
key seems to get rid of them.  Every time my laptop goes into hibernation or
Outlook is re-opened, I get this pop-up with 80+ appointment reminders.  

Were you able to get anyone to tell you how to permanently dismiss the
reminders?

Linc F

> Hi all
> I do hope someone may have seen something like this before. I've done some
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>
> Many thanks for your time in advance
Diane Poremsky - 20 Jun 2007 01:41 GMT
did you try the cleanreminders switch?  if that failed, try turning off
reminders, starting outlook then turn it on. This will wipe out all old
reminders.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/switches.htm
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm

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>I have had a similar problem, in that I have tried to dismiss a set of
> reminders for events that occurred up to five months ago and neither the
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>> Many thanks for your time in advance
Lincoln Ferris - 20 Jun 2007 04:37 GMT
Thanks for the suggestion.  I will try it and see what happens.

Linc

> did you try the cleanreminders switch?  if that failed, try turning off
> reminders, starting outlook then turn it on. This will wipe out all old
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> >> Many thanks for your time in advance
Mike-O-Humma - 20 Jun 2007 19:33 GMT
if you need just reminders, you may try cute reminder...
http://www.cutereminder.com/free/
i find it reliable and hassle free... enterprise version does task
management too, but it doesn't support exchange...

- mike

> Hi all
> I do hope someone may have seen something like this before. I've done some
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> Many thanks for your time in advance

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